Secunia Advisory SA13818

Opera "data:" URI Handler Spoofing Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA13818
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Release Date 2005-01-12
Last Update 2005-02-21
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Spoofing
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Opera 5.x
Opera 6.x
Opera 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-0456 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
Michael Holzt has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into executing malicious files.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of "data:" URIs, causing wrong information to be shown in a download dialog. This can be exploited by e.g. a malicious website to trick users into executing a malicious file by supplying a specially crafted "data:" URI.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on version 7.54u1 for Windows. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 7.54u2.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Michael Holzt

Changelog
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Other references
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