Argument Injection Vulnerability in Opera Telnet URI Handling

CVE-2004-0473 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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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