Opera Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3015

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to an HTML Injection attack.

Description

The remote host is using a version of Opera that is prone to a security flaw where a malicious attacker can inject malicious data into a URI. Such an attack would require that the attacker be able to convince an Opera user to browse to a malicious URI. Successful exploitation would result in the attacker gaining access to confidential data (such as authentication cookies) or executing code within the browser.

Solution

Upgrade or patch according to vendor recommendations.

See Also

http://www.opera.com

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/801

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 3015

Family: Web Clients

Published: 6/16/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 18503

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:opera:opera_browser

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-1420, CVE-2005-1475, CVE-2005-1669

BID: 6962, 14009, 13970, 13969