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CVE-2008-4200
Opera before 9.52 does not ensure that the address field of a news feed represents the feed's actual URL, which allows remote attackers to…
Medium6.4EPSS 3.2%
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- mitre
Description
Opera before 9.52 does not ensure that the address field of a news feed represents the feed's actual URL, which allows remote attackers to change this field to display the URL of a page containing web script controlled by the attacker.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (16)
- ADV-2008-2416 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32538 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/952/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/952/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1020723 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- opera-newsfeed-weak-security(44559) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 30768 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/952/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/952/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080923 Re: CVE request: Opera < 9.52 multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080919 CVE request: Opera < 9.52 multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 31549 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235298 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/952/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/897/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200811-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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