Sensitive-data phishing via delayed address-bar refresh
Published Feb 21, 2025 · Updated Feb 21, 2025
Address bar spoofing in Opera Mini for Android before 52.2 allows remote attackers to impersonate sites and solicit sensitive data. Crafted JavaScript manipulates timing between page loads and address-bar refreshes, pairing attacker-controlled content with another site's displayed address. Exploitation requires a user to visit and interact with a malicious page; the reported consequence is phishing-driven disclosure, not code execution.
Summary
What happened
Address bar spoofing in Opera Mini for Android before 52.2 allows remote attackers to impersonate sites and solicit sensitive data. Crafted JavaScript manipulates timing between page loads and address-bar refreshes, pairing attacker-controlled content with another site's displayed address. Exploitation requires a user to visit and interact with a malicious page; the reported consequence is phishing-driven disclosure, not code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-6158
- Published
- Feb 21, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Opera
- Product
- Opera Mini for Android
- Classifications
- CWE-451, CWE-290, T1566.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 21, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Is a vulnerable build present?
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- Affected versionversion=Below 52.2
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What is affected?
Published CVSS scores
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Mobile browser address-bar spoof JavaScript proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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