Opera 9.52 and earlier, and 10.00 Beta 3 Build 1699, does not properly block data: URIs in Location headers in HTTP responses, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors related to (1) injecting a Location header that contains JavaScript sequences in a data:text/html URI or (2) entering a data:text/html URI with JavaScript sequences when specifying the content of a Location header. NOTE: the JavaScript executes outside of the context of the HTTP site.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2997 Opera 9.52 and earlier, and 10.00 Beta 3 Build 1699, does not properly block data: URIs in Location headers in HTTP responses, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors related to (1) injecting a Location header that contains JavaScript sequences in a data:text/html URI or (2) entering a data:text/html URI with JavaScript sequences when specifying the content of a Location header. NOTE: the JavaScript executes outside of the context of the HTTP site.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:14:55.168Z

Reserved: 2009-08-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-3013

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-08-31T16:30:06.937

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-3013

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