CVE-2008-4695

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Opera before 9.60 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and have unspecified other impact by predicting the cache pathname of a cached Java applet and then launching this applet from the cache, leading to applet execution within the local-machine context.

Affected products

Opera Software AS Opera for Android: through 9.60; 5.0, 5.0-beta_2, 5.0-beta_3, 5.0-beta_4, 5.0-beta_5, 5.0-beta_6 (+72)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00009.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32177
http://secunia.com/advisories/32394
http://secunia.com/advisories/32538
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-01.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021017
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/21/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/22/5
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/960/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/960/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/960/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/960/

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