Vulnerability in Opera Browser
CVE-2004-0473
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.025 (83.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.opera.com/linux/changelogs/750/index.dml (Broken Link)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16139 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.idefense.com/application/poi/display (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-19.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/10341 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)