What is CVE-2016-6908?

CVE-2016-6908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opera Opera_browser, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-01-26.

How severe is CVE-2016-6908?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2016-6908 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Open Redirect in Opera Opera_browser

CVE-2016-6908

Characters from languages are such as Arabic, Hebrew are displayed from RTL (Right To Left) order in Opera 37.0.2192.105088 for Android, due to mishandling of several unicode characters such as U+FE70, U+0622, U+0623 etc and how they are r…

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

EPSS: 0.007 (48.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Opera Opera_browser — versions 37.0.2192.105088
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6908?: CVE-2016-6908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opera Opera_browser, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-01-26.
How severe is CVE-2016-6908?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-6908 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.