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CVE-2008-4292

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% 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-255

Description

Opera before 9.52 does not check the CRL override upon encountering a certificate that lacks a CRL, which has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: it is not clear whether this is a vulnerability, but the vendor included it in a security section of the advisory.

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://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235298
• http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=241988&t=1222404671&page=1
• http://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/2008/06/27/nobody-checks-the-padlock-debunked-by-opera-users
• 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/

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