🛡️ RLSA-2022:2129 — lynx (CVE-2021-38165)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Moderate: lynx security update

Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags.

Security Fix(es):

  • lynx: Disclosure of HTTP authentication credentials via SNI data (CVE-2021-38165)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

RLSA-2022:2129 is recorded against 1 package.

  • lynx (fixed in 0:2.8.9-4.el8)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

errata.rockylinux.org (Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-06-28
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-28
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
lynx — 0:2.8.9-4.el8

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