Opera
CVE-2016-4075
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Redirect URL validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 6.1 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.30%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could redirect users to malicious websites via URL manipulation by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Opera Mini 13 and Opera Stable 36 allow remote attackers to spoof the displayed URL via a crafted HTML document, related to the about:blank URL. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate redirect destinations against an allowlist, avoid using user input in redirect URLs.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Open Redirect (CWE-601), which allows attackers to redirect users to malicious websites via URL manipulation. Opera Mini 13 and Opera Stable 36 allow remote attackers to spoof the displayed URL via a crafted HTML document, related to the about:blank URL. Affected products include: Opera Opera Browser, Opera Opera Mini.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
Opera Mini 13 and Opera Stable 36 allow remote attackers to spoof the displayed URL via a crafted HTML document, related to the about:blank URL.
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Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
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Heap-based buffer overflow in Opera before 12.11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of
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The Opera Mini application through 16.0.14 for iOS has a UXSS vulnerability that can be triggered by performing navigati
Unspecified vulnerability in Opera before 12.15 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to a "moderately severe i
Unspecified vulnerability in Opera before 12.01 on Windows and UNIX, and before 11.66 and 12.x before 12.01 on Mac OS X,
Unspecified vulnerability in Opera before 12.00 on Mac OS X has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to a "moderat
Opera before 12.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) vi
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