CVE-2006-3199
Opera 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an A tag with an href attribute with a URL containing a long hostname, which triggers an out-of-bounds operation.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.6%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Opera 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an A tag with an href attribute with a URL containing a long hostname, which triggers an out-of-bounds operation.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 14.60% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 21 June 2006
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- opera/opera browser
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 14.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=144635Broken Link
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016359Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/27510Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437945/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438326/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18585Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2617Broken Link
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27289Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=144635Broken Link
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016359Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/27510Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437945/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438326/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18585Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2617Broken Link
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27289Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.