Vulnerability in Opera

CVE-2008-5679

The HTML parsing engine in Opera before 9.63 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web pages that trigger an invalid pointer calculation and heap corruption.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.033 (88.0th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-5679: held from 0.033 to 0.033.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Opera — versions 5..10, 5.0, 5.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References