Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5679

RCE

Title: Opera RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5679.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Dec 19, 2008
Modified Date Apr 09, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.20%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5679: The HTML parsing engine in Opera before 9.63 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web pages that trigger an invalid pointer calculation and heap corruption.

Impacted Vendors

O
opera_software 1
O
opera 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/34294 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4791 http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_opera_html_parsing_code_execution.php http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/963/ http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/921/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499315/100/0/threaded http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021460 http://secunia.com/advisories/34294 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4791 http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_opera_html_parsing_code_execution.php http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/963/ http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/921/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499315/100/0/threaded http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021460
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
9.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5679 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.