CVE-2004-0473

high

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Opera before 7.50 does not properly filter "-" characters that begin a hostname in a telnet URI, which allows remote attackers to insert options to the resulting command line and overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the "-f" option on Windows XP or (2) the "-n" option on Linux.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16139

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-19.xml

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-07-07

Updated: 2022-02-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High