CVE-2010-1993 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Opera 9.52 does not properly handle an IFRAME element with a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

Published: 2010-05-20

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:9.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2010-2012	Opera 9.52 does not properly handle an IFRAME element with a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00746.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
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%3A11952

History

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Subscriptions

Opera Opera Browser

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2010-05-20T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T02:17:13.306Z

Reserved: 2010-05-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-1993

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-05-20T17:30:01.707

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-1993

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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