CVE-2004-2659

Severity

40%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

81%

Opera offers an Open button to verify that a user wishes to execute a downloaded file, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to construct a race condition that tricks a user into clicking Open via a request for a different mouse or keyboard action very shortly before the Open dialog appears. NOTE: this is a different issue than CVE-2005-2407.

Opera offers an Open button to verify that a user wishes to execute a downloaded file, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to construct a race condition that tricks a user into clicking Open via a request for a different mouse or keyboard action very shortly before the Open dialog appears. NOTE: this is a different issue than CVE-2005-2407.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:44:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Mozilla

References

20040407 Race conditions in security dialogs

Exploit

http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/01/race-conditions-in-security-dialogs/

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