Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-28117 - Unspecified vulnerability in KDE Discover
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.)
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/KDE/discover/commit/fcd3b30552bf03a384b1a16f9bb8db029c111356
- https://github.com/KDE/discover/commit/fcd3b30552bf03a384b1a16f9bb8db029c111356
- https://github.com/KDE/discover/releases
- https://github.com/KDE/discover/releases
- https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/94478827aab63d2e2321f0ca9ec5553718798e60
- https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/94478827aab63d2e2321f0ca9ec5553718798e60
- https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20210310-1.txt
- https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20210310-1.txt
- https://userbase.kde.org/Discover
- https://userbase.kde.org/Discover