CVE-2004-0473

Published Jul 7, 2004

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

Description: Argument injection vulnerability in Opera before 7.50 does not properly filter "-" characters that begin a hostname in a telnet URI, which allows remote attackers to insert options to the resulting command line and overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the "-f" option on Windows XP or (2) the "-n" option on Linux.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 2.6
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 4.9
Vector string: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-88

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "3C2A60B0-579A-46F8-91E4-63275CF8595A",
            "versionEndExcluding": "7.50"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References