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Argument injection vulnerability in Opera before 7.50...

Low severity Unreviewed Published Apr 29, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 7, 2004
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 29, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

The product constructs a string for a command to executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2004-0473

GHSA ID

GHSA-56vw-hr2p-ff5f

Source code

No known source code

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