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CVE-2005-4210

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4210 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Opera versions prior to 8.51 on Windows systems with an Input Method Editor (IME) installed. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into bookmarking a site with an excessively long title, leading to a persistent application crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, readily available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opera:opera_browser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0328 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

secunia.com / advisories/17963
Broken LinkExploitPatch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23549
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
opera.com / support/search/supsearch.dml
Broken Link
osvdb.org / 21641
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/15813
Broken LinkPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2846
Broken Link