Description
Opera 6.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to access sensitive information such as cookies and links for other domains via Javascript that uses setTimeout to (1) access data after a new window to the domain has been opened or (2) access data via about:cache.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Opera 5.0/5.1 - Same Origin Policy Circumvention EDB-21156 · remote · Nov 15, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 3553 vdb-entry
- opera-java-cross-site(7567) vdb-entry
- 20011116 Re: Several javascript vulnerabilities in Opera mailing-list
- 20011115 Several javascript vulnerabilities in Opera mailing-list