CVE-2010-1989

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-05-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Opera 9.52 executes a mail application in situations where an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images, a related issue to CVE-2010-0181.

Affected products

Opera Browser: 9.52

References

http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11664
http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11664

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