Information Exposure Affecting kde/kdelibs package, versions [,4.13.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KDEKDELIBS-2365424
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Jul 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-3494  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kde/kdelibs to version 4.13.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure kio/usernotificationhandler.cpp in the POP3 kioslave in kdelibs 4.10.95 before 4.13.3 does not properly generate warning notifications, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid certificate.

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CVSS Base Scores

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