National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4795
Original release date:10/30/2008
Last revised:02/26/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The links panel in Opera before 9.62 processes Javascript within the context of the "outermost page" of a frame, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
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 modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 31991
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: opera-linkspanel-xss(46220)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021127
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/907/
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200811-01
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32538
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:023