National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4695
Original release date:10/23/2008
Last revised:02/26/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Opera before 9.60 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and have unspecified other impact by predicting the cache pathname of a cached Java applet and then launching this applet from the cache, leading to applet execution within the local-machine context.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2765
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: opera-java-applets-information-disclosure(45723)
External Source: BID
Name: 31643
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/902/
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/960/
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/960/
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/960/
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/960/
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/960/
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081022 Re: CVE Request: Opera 9.60 with security fixes
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081021 CVE Request: Opera 9.60 with security fixes
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021017
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200811-01
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32538
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32394
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32177
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:022