PT-2010-3610 · Opera · Opera

Published 2010-05-20 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2010-1989

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Opera version 9.52

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by launching excessive applications via an HTML document with many images. This occurs when an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL, causing the execution of a mail application.

Recommendations For Opera version 9.52, consider disabling the automatic execution of mail applications when encountering mailto: URLs to prevent excessive application launches. Restrict access to HTML documents with many images that could trigger this issue until a fix is available.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1989

Affected Products

Opera

References · 4

• 🔥 http://websecurity.com.ua/4206 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1989 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11664 · Note