XSS in KDE Konqueror
CVE-2007-0537
The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.019 (78.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- KDE Konqueror — versions 3.5.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0909.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24889 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23932 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070206-1.txt
- osvdb.org/32975 (vdb-entry)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-10.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457924/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-420-1 (vendor-advisory)