CVE-2012-1931

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Opera before 11.62 on UNIX, when used in conjunction with an unspecified printing application, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file during printing.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 11.61; 5.0, 5.0-beta2, 5.0-beta3, 5.0-beta4, 5.0-beta5, 5.0-beta6 (+116)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00012.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48535
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1162/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1015/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74500
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00012.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48535
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1162/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1015/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74500

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