CVE-2009-3049

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Opera before 10.00 does not properly display all characters in Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) in the address bar, which allows remote attackers to spoof URLs and conduct phishing attacks, related to Unicode and Punycode.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 10.00; 7.0, 7.23, 7.53, 7.54, 7.60, 8.0 (+18)

References

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/1000/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/1000/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1000/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/1000/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1000/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/932/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6235
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/1000/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/1000/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/mac/1000/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/1000/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1000/

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