Opera < 9.63 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4791

Synopsis

The remote host contains a web browser that is affected by several issues.

Description

The version of Opera installed on the remote host is earlier than 9.63 and is reportedly affected by several issues :

- It may be possible to execute arbitrary code on the remote system by manipulating certain text-area contents. (920)

- It may be possible to crash the remote browser using certain HTML constructs or inject code under certain conditions. (921)

- While previewing news feeds, Opera does not correctly block certain scripted URLs. Such scripts, if not blocked, may be able to subscribe a user to other arbitrary feeds and view contents of the feeds to which the user is currently subscribed. (923)

- By displaying content using XSLT as escaped strings, it may be possible for a website to inject scripted markup. (924)

Solution

Upgrade to version 9.63 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4791

Family: Web Clients

Published: 12/16/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 35185

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:opera:opera_browser

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5178, CVE-2012-1251

BID: 32864, 32891

Detections

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