Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-2715 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Opera Browser

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
opera
CWE-200
nessus
NVD
Published: 2008-06-16
Updated: 2017-08-08

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Opera
108

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Subverting Environment Variable Values
    The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
  • Footprinting
    An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Browser Fingerprinting
    An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

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

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