Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-6470

Title: Opera Opera Browser RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2012-6470

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jan 02, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

31.32%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-6470: Opera before 12.12 does not properly allocate memory for GIF images, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory overwrite) via a malformed image.

Impacted Vendors

opera 1

Reference Links

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unified/1212/ http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1038/ http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unified/1212/ http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1038/

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-2012-6470 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23107

View Code

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 02, 2013 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.