CVE-2011-0684
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedOpera before 11.01 does not properly handle redirections and unspecified other HTTP responses, which allows remote web servers to obtain sufficient access to local files to use these files as page resources, and consequently obtain potentially sensitive information from the contents of the files, via an unknown response manipulation.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceOpera before 11.01 fails to properly validate HTTP redirections and unspecified responses, allowing malicious web servers to manipulate responses to access local file contents as page resources and exfiltrate sensitive data.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 11.00= 5.0= 5.02= 5.10= 5.11= 5.12= 6.0= 6.1= 6.01= 6.02= 6.03= 6.04CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check Opera browser versionOpen Opera, go to Help > About Opera, or right-click opera.exe and select Properties > Details to view the version numberAffected if The version is 11.00 or lower, or matches any of these affected versions: 5.0, 5.02, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 6.0, 6.1, 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, or 6.04
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Identify if Opera is used for web browsingDetermine whether Opera is actively used as a web browser on this system for accessing external websitesAffected if Opera is the primary or secondary browser and is used to navigate to untrusted or public websites
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Confirm HTTP redirection handling is in useNo configuration check needed; the vulnerability is triggered when Opera processes HTTP 3xx redirection responses from any web serverAffected if Opera processes any HTTP response including redirect responses from remote servers (this is default browser behavior)
You are affected if you run any Opera version 11.00 or lower (including 5.x and 6.x versions listed) and use the browser to access web content, because the flaw allows malicious servers to manipulate redirects to access local file contents as page resources.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade Opera to version 11.01 or later, or migrate to a different browser if Opera 11.01 is no longer supported.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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