CVE-2010-1989: Opera Browser

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Opera 9.52 executes a mail application in situations where an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images, a related issue to CVE-2010-0181.

Affected products

• Opera Opera Browser: version 9.52 only

Published 2010-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.