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CVE-2001-0898
Opera 6.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to access sensitive information such as cookies and links for other domains via Javascript…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Opera 6.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to access sensitive information such as cookies and links for other domains via Javascript that uses setTimeout to (1) access data after a new window to the domain has been opened or (2) access data via about:cache.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 23 years later
· 23 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 3553 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- opera-java-cross-site(7567) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20011116 Re: Several javascript vulnerabilities in Opera (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20011115 Several javascript vulnerabilities in Opera (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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