CVE-2011-0450

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The downloads manager in Opera before 11.01 on Windows does not properly determine the pathname of the filesystem-viewing application, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that hosts an executable file.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 11.00; 5.0, 5.0-beta2, 5.0-beta3, 5.0-beta4, 5.0-beta5, 5.0-beta6 (+106)

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN33880169/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000010.html
http://osvdb.org/70726
http://secunia.com/advisories/43023
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1101/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/985/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0231
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12369
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN33880169/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000010.html
http://osvdb.org/70726
http://secunia.com/advisories/43023

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