CVE-2008-4195

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Opera before 9.52 does not properly restrict the ability of a framed web page to change the address associated with a different frame, which allows remote attackers to trigger the display of an arbitrary address in a frame via unspecified use of web script.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 9.51; 5.0, 5.0-beta2, 5.0-beta3, 5.0-beta4, 5.0-beta5, 5.0-beta6 (+78)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31549
http://secunia.com/advisories/32538
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-01.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/19/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/24/4
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/952/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/952/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/952/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/952/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/952/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/893/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30768

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