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CVE-2004-1490

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1490 describes a file type spoofing vulnerability in Opera 7.54 and earlier versions. Attackers can manipulate Content-Disposition or Content-Type headers using dots and non-breaking spaces to deceive users about downloaded file types. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high attack complexity and a potential impact limited to partial integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known Metasploit or ExploitDB modules, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.54CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0245 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/12981
Broken LinkPatch
secunia.com / secunia_research/2004-19/advisory
Broken LinkPatch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18423
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-17.xml
PatchThird Party Advisory
opera.com / linux/changelogs/754u1
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/11883
Broken LinkPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry