CVE-2007-1115

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-1115
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-02-26 23:28:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe child frames in Opera 9 before 9.20 inherit the default charset from the parent window when a charset is not specified in an HTTP Content-Type header or META tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.0 All All All
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.0 beta1 All All
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.0 beta2 All All
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.01 All All All
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.02 All All All
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.10 All All All
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.12 All All All
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.20 All All All
Application Opera Opera Browser 9.20 beta1 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SUSE update for opera - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Hardened-PHP Project - PhP Security - Advisory 03/2007 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.hardened-php.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Opera Charset Inheritance Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Multiple Web Browser UTF-7 Cross-Domain Character-Set-Inheritance Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Advisory: Character Encoding Inheritance in iframes Can Enable Cross-Site Scripting - Opera Knowledge Base af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.opera.com
Opera IFRAME Character Encoding Inheritence Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
osvdb.org/32118 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
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