Vulnerability in Opera Browser

CVE-2005-0457

Opera 7.54 and earlier on Gentoo Linux uses an insecure path for plugins, which could allow local users to gain privileges by inserting malicious libraries into the PORTAGE_TMPDIR (portage) temporary directory.

EPSS: 0.004 (33.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Opera Opera_browser
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory)