VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-2666

critical
Published 2010-07-08 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Opera before 10.54 on Windows and Mac OS X does not properly enforce permission requirements for widget filesystem access and directory selection, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to create or modify arbitrary files, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via widget File I/O operations.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
operaopera_browser{"endIncluding":"10.53"}
operaopera_browser5.0
operaopera_browser5.02
operaopera_browser5.10
operaopera_browser5.11
operaopera_browser5.12
operaopera_browser6.0
operaopera_browser6.01
operaopera_browser6.02
operaopera_browser6.03
operaopera_browser6.04
operaopera_browser6.05
operaopera_browser6.06
operaopera_browser7.0
operaopera_browser7.01
operaopera_browser7.02
operaopera_browser7.03
operaopera_browser7.10
operaopera_browser7.11
operaopera_browser7.20
operaopera_browser7.21
operaopera_browser7.22
operaopera_browser7.23
operaopera_browser7.50
operaopera_browser7.51
operaopera_browser7.52
operaopera_browser7.53
operaopera_browser7.54
operaopera_browser7.60
operaopera_browser8.0
operaopera_browser8.01
operaopera_browser8.02
operaopera_browser8.50
operaopera_browser8.51
operaopera_browser8.52
operaopera_browser8.53
operaopera_browser8.54
operaopera_browser9.0
operaopera_browser9.01
operaopera_browser9.02
operaopera_browser9.10
operaopera_browser9.12
operaopera_browser9.20
operaopera_browser9.21
operaopera_browser9.22
operaopera_browser9.23
operaopera_browser9.24
operaopera_browser9.25
operaopera_browser9.26
operaopera_browser9.27
operaopera_browser9.50
operaopera_browser9.51
operaopera_browser9.52
operaopera_browser9.60
operaopera_browser9.61
operaopera_browser9.62
operaopera_browser9.63
operaopera_browser9.64
operaopera_browser10.00
operaopera_browser10.01
operaopera_browser10.10
operaopera_browser10.50
operaopera_browser10.51
operaopera_browser10.52

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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