vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-38165: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 7, 2021
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Lynx through 2.8.9 mishandles the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, which allows remote attackers to discover cleartext credentials because they may appear in SNI data.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-lynx
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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