Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-2714 - Multiple Security vulnerability in Opera Web Browser 9.27

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
opera
nessus

Summary

Opera before 9.26 allows remote attackers to misrepresent web page addresses using "certain characters" that "cause the page address text to be misplaced."

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Opera
106

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_0_OPERA-080616.NASL
    descriptionThis patch brings Opera to security update level 9.50 Following security problems were fixed: CVE-2008-2714: Opera before 9.26 allows remote attackers to misrepresent web page addresses using
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id40088
    published2009-07-21
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40088
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : opera (opera-43)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from openSUSE Security Update opera-43.
    #
    # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(40088);
      script_version("1.11");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:31");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2714", "CVE-2008-2715", "CVE-2008-2716");
    
      script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : opera (opera-43)");
      script_summary(english:"Check for the opera-43 patch");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "This patch brings Opera to security update level 9.50
    
    Following security problems were fixed: CVE-2008-2714: Opera before
    9.26 allows remote attackers to misrepresent web page addresses using
    'certain characters' that 'cause the page address text to be
    misplaced.'
    
    CVE-2008-2715: Unspecified vulnerability in Opera before 9.5 allows
    remote attackers to read cross-domain images via HTML CANVAS elements
    that use the images as patterns.
    
    CVE-2008-2716: Unspecified vulnerability in Opera before 9.5 allows
    remote attackers to spoof the contents of trusted frames on the same
    parent page by modifying the location, which can facilitate phishing
    attacks.
    
    It also contains lots of new features and other bugfixes, see the
    Changelog at: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/950/"
      );
      # http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/950/
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://help.opera.com/en/latest/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400367"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected opera package.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
      script_cwe_id(200);
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:opera");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/06/16");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/07/21");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
    if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.0)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.0", release);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.0", reference:"opera-9.50-0.1") ) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Opera");
    }
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_OPERA-5354.NASL
    descriptionThis patch brings Opera to security update level 9.50 Following security problems were fixed: CVE-2008-2714: Opera before 9.26 allows remote attackers to misrepresent web page addresses using
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id33224
    published2008-06-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33224
    titleopenSUSE 10 Security Update : opera (opera-5354)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from openSUSE Security Update opera-5354.
    #
    # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(33224);
      script_version ("1.9");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:33");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2714", "CVE-2008-2715", "CVE-2008-2716");
    
      script_name(english:"openSUSE 10 Security Update : opera (opera-5354)");
      script_summary(english:"Check for the opera-5354 patch");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "This patch brings Opera to security update level 9.50
    
    Following security problems were fixed: CVE-2008-2714: Opera before
    9.26 allows remote attackers to misrepresent web page addresses using
    'certain characters' that 'cause the page address text to be
    misplaced.'
    
    CVE-2008-2715: Unspecified vulnerability in Opera before 9.5 allows
    remote attackers to read cross-domain images via HTML CANVAS elements
    that use the images as patterns.
    
    CVE-2008-2716: Unspecified vulnerability in Opera before 9.5 allows
    remote attackers to spoof the contents of trusted frames on the same
    parent page by modifying the location, which can facilitate phishing
    attacks.
    
    It also contains lots of new features and other bugfixes, see the
    Changelog at: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/950/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/950/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected opera package.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
      script_cwe_id(200);
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:opera");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/06/17");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/06/19");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
      script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
    if (release !~ "^(SUSE10\.2|SUSE10\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "10.2 / 10.3", release);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.2", reference:"opera-9.50-0.1") ) flag++;
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"opera-9.50-0.1") ) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Opera");
    }
    
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idOPERA_950.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Opera installed on the remote host reportedly is affected by several issues : - Improper handling of special characters in page addresses can make addresses look like other ones, aiding in phishing attacks. - Specially crafted HTML canvas elements could violate the same-origin image policy. - Framed sources contained on the same parent page can modify each other
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id33168
    published2008-06-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33168
    titleOpera < 9.50 Multiple Vulnerabilities