HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-2274

Opera Browser vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
8.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
The BitTorrent implementation in Opera 9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application crash) via a malformed torrent file. NOTE: the original disclosure refers to this as a memory leak, but it is not certain.
Affected vendor
Opera
Affected product
Opera Browser
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory (Memory Leak)
Published
2007-04-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Opera Opera Browser is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-2274.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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