Opera < 11.51 Multiple Vulnerabilities (BEAST)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56042

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Synopsis

The remote host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Opera installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 11.51. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

- An unspecified error can allow an insecure or malicious site to cause the browser to display security information belonging to another, secure site in the address bar. This causes the insecure or malicious site to appear to be part of, or secured by, a third-party site. (CVE-2011-3388)

- An information disclosure vulnerability, known as BEAST, exists in the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 protocols due to a flaw in the way the initialization vector (IV) is selected when operating in cipher-block chaining (CBC) modes. A man-in-the-middle attacker can exploit this to obtain plaintext HTTP header data, by using a blockwise chosen-boundary attack (BCBA) on an HTTPS session, in conjunction with JavaScript code that uses the HTML5 WebSocket API, the Java URLConnection API, or the Silverlight WebClient API. (CVE-2011-3389)

Solution

Upgrade to Opera 11.51 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56042

File Name: opera_1151.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: Local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 9/1/2011

Updated: 5/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3389

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:opera:opera_browser

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Opera

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3388, CVE-2011-3389

BID: 49388, 49978

CERT: 864643

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