CVE-2021-28117

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Mar 20, 2021
Updated: Oct 15, 2024
Reserved: Mar 9, 2021

Description

libdiscover/backends/KNSBackend/KNSResource.cpp in KDE Discover before 5.21.3 automatically creates links to potentially dangerous URLs (that are neither https:// nor http://) based on the content of the store.kde.org web site. (5.18.7 is also a fixed version.)

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://userbase.kde.org/Discover
https://github.com/KDE/discover/releases
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20210310-1.txt
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/94478827aab63d2e2321f0ca9ec5553718798e60
https://github.com/KDE/discover/commit/fcd3b30552bf03a384b1a16f9bb8db029c111356

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