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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2010-4580

Severity Medium
Score 5/10

Summary

Opera before 11.00 does not clear WAP WML form fields after manual navigation to a new web site, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an input field that has the same name as an input field on a previously visited web site.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published