Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5428

Title: Opera Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5428.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Dec 11, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5428: Opera 9.51 on Windows XP does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.

Impacted Vendors

opera_software 1

opera 1

Reference Links

http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5428 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 11, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.