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Unscored CVE-2004-0473 EUVD-2004-0472GHSA-56vw-hr2p-ff5f

Argument injection vulnerability in Opera before 7.50 does not properly filter "-" characters that begin a hostname in a telnet URI, which …

Published May 20, 2004 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Opera before 7.50 does not properly filter "-" characters that begin a hostname in a telnet URI, which allows remote attackers to insert options to the resulting command line and overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the "-f" option on Windows XP or (2) the "-n" option on Linux.

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