CVE-2004-2659

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Opera offers an Open button to verify that a user wishes to execute a downloaded file, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to construct a race condition that tricks a user into clicking Open via a request for a different mouse or keyboard action very shortly before the Open dialog appears. NOTE: this is a different issue than CVE-2005-2407.

Affected products

Mozilla: all versions
Opera Browser: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/0264.html
http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/01/race-conditions-in-security-dialogs/
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/0264.html
http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/01/race-conditions-in-security-dialogs/

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