Description
Argument injection vulnerability in Opera before 7.50 does not properly filter "-" characters that begin a hostname in a telnet URI, which allows remote attackers to insert options to the resulting command line and overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the "-f" option on Windows XP or (2) the "-n" option on Linux.
Published: 2004-05-20
Score: 2.6 Low
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2004-0472 Argument injection vulnerability in Opera before 7.50 does not properly filter "-" characters that begin a hostname in a telnet URI, which allows remote attackers to insert options to the resulting command line and overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the "-f" option on Windows XP or (2) the "-n" option on Linux.
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Opera Opera Browser
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:17:15.126Z

Reserved: 2004-05-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-0473

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Status : Modified

Published: 2004-07-07T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2004-0473

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