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CVE-2005-2309

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2309 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Opera 8.01, where a specially crafted JPEG image can lead to excessive CPU consumption. This low-severity vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 5.0, can be exploited remotely without authentication, causing a denial of service (availability impact). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:8.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0317 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

lcamtuf.coredump.cx / crash
Broken LinkExploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/405298
Broken LinkExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / archive/1/405524/30/0/threaded
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry