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CVE-2008-72451 exploit

Opera 9.52 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unusable browser) by calling the window.print function in a lo…

Published 17 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.0
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
6.3%
percentile 94%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Opera 9.52 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unusable browser) by calling the window.print function in a loop, aka a "printing DoS attack," possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-0821.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

6.26% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-12509 Multiple Browsers - 'window.print()' Denial of Service · dos · 2010-05-04

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

  • websecurity.com.ua /2456/ · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • oval.cisecurity.org /repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6350 · vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/506328/100/100/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred

Sources

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