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CVE-2004-0473

LOW CVSS: 2.6 Published: 2004-07-07 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Opera Opera Browser

Weakness Type

CWE-88

References