Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-0915 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Opera Browser

047910
CVSS 6.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
opera
CWE-79
nessus

Summary

Opera before 9.64 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-domain scripting attacks via unspecified vectors related to plug-ins.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Opera
121

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Embedding Scripts in Non-Script Elements
    This attack is a form of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) where malicious scripts are embedded in elements that are not expected to host scripts such as image tags (<img>), comments in XML documents (< !-CDATA->), etc. These tags may not be subject to the same input validation, output validation, and other content filtering and checking routines, so this can create an opportunity for an attacker to tunnel through the application's elements and launch a XSS attack through other elements. As with all remote attacks, it is important to differentiate the ability to launch an attack (such as probing an internal network for unpatched servers) and the ability of the remote attacker to collect and interpret the output of said attack.
  • Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
  • Cross-Site Scripting in Error Pages
    An attacker distributes a link (or possibly some other query structure) with a request to a third party web server that is malformed and also contains a block of exploit code in order to have the exploit become live code in the resulting error page. When the third party web server receives the crafted request and notes the error it then creates an error message that echoes the malformed message, including the exploit. Doing this converts the exploit portion of the message into to valid language elements that are executed by the viewing browser. When a victim executes the query provided by the attacker the infected error message error message is returned including the exploit code which then runs in the victim's browser. XSS can result in execution of code as well as data leakage (e.g. session cookies can be sent to the attacker). This type of attack is especially dangerous since the exploit appears to come from the third party web server, who the victim may trust and hence be more vulnerable to deception.
  • Cross-Site Scripting Using Alternate Syntax
    The attacker uses alternate forms of keywords or commands that result in the same action as the primary form but which may not be caught by filters. For example, many keywords are processed in a case insensitive manner. If the site's web filtering algorithm does not convert all tags into a consistent case before the comparison with forbidden keywords it is possible to bypass filters (e.g., incomplete black lists) by using an alternate case structure. For example, the "script" tag using the alternate forms of "Script" or "ScRiPt" may bypass filters where "script" is the only form tested. Other variants using different syntax representations are also possible as well as using pollution meta-characters or entities that are eventually ignored by the rendering engine. The attack can result in the execution of otherwise prohibited functionality.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_1_OPERA-090317.NASL
    descriptionOpera 9.64 is a recommended security and stability upgrade, incorporating the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine. Opera highly recommends all users to upgrade to Opera 9.64 to take advantage of these improvements (CVE-2009-0914, CVE-2009-0915, CVE-2009-0916). A detailed changelog can be found at http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/964/
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id40290
    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/40290
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : opera (opera-629)
    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-629.
    #
    # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(40290);
      script_version("1.12");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:35");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0914", "CVE-2009-0915", "CVE-2009-0916");
    
      script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : opera (opera-629)");
      script_summary(english:"Check for the opera-629 patch");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Opera 9.64 is a recommended security and stability upgrade,
    incorporating the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine. Opera highly
    recommends all users to upgrade to Opera 9.64 to take advantage of
    these improvements (CVE-2009-0914, CVE-2009-0915, CVE-2009-0916).
    
    A detailed changelog can be found at
    http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/964/"
      );
      # http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/964/
      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=481892"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected opera package.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
      script_cwe_id(399);
    
      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:11.1");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/03/17");
      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\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.1", 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:"SUSE11.1", reference:"opera-9.64-1.1.1") ) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_hole(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-6094.NASL
    descriptionOpera 9.64 is a recommended security and stability upgrade, incorporating the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine. Opera highly recommends all users to upgrade to Opera 9.64 to take advantage of these improvements (CVE-2009-0914, CVE-2009-0915, CVE-2009-0916). A detailed changelog can be found at http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/964/
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35957
    published2009-03-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35957
    titleopenSUSE 10 Security Update : opera (opera-6094)
  • NASL familyWindows
    NASL idOPERA_964.NASL
    descriptionThe version of Opera installed on the remote host is earlier than 9.64 and thus reportedly affected by multiple issues : - A memory-corruption vulnerability when processing specially crafted JPEG files could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected application. (926) - It may be possible for certain plugins to execute arbitrary code in the context of a different domain. An attacker could exploit this to steal authentication credentials as well as carry out other attacks.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35761
    published2009-03-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35761
    titleOpera < 9.64 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_8C5205B411A011DEA9640030843D3802.NASL
    descriptionOpera Team reports : An unspecified error in the processing of JPEG images can be exploited to trigger a memory corruption. An error can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in a different domain via unspecified plugins. An unspecified error has a
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id35928
    published2009-03-16
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35928
    titleFreeBSD : opera -- multiple vulnerabilities (8c5205b4-11a0-11de-a964-0030843d3802)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_0_OPERA-090317.NASL
    descriptionOpera 9.64 is a recommended security and stability upgrade, incorporating the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine. Opera highly recommends all users to upgrade to Opera 9.64 to take advantage of these improvements (CVE-2009-0914, CVE-2009-0915, CVE-2009-0916). A detailed changelog can be found at http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/964/
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id40095
    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/40095
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : opera (opera-629)

Oval

accepted2014-03-17T04:00:25.509-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameChandan S
    organizationSecPod Technologies
  • nameJosh Turpin
    organizationSymantec Corporation
  • nameMaria Kedovskaya
    organizationALTX-SOFT
  • nameMaria Mikhno
    organizationALTX-SOFT
definition_extensions
commentOpera Browser is installed
ovaloval:org.mitre.oval:def:6482
descriptionOpera before 9.64 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-domain scripting attacks via unspecified vectors related to plug-ins.
familywindows
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:6220
statusaccepted
submitted2009-04-02T10:31:31
titleOpera cross-domain scripting attacks Vulnerability
version11