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CVE-2021-28117

Published: Mar 20, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28117
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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.)

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Discover Kde * 5.21.3 (excluding)
Plasma-discover Ubuntu bionic *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu devel *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu focal *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu groovy *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu hirsute *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu impish *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu jammy *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu kinetic *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu lunar *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu mantic *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu noble *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu oracular *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu plucky *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu questing *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu trusty *
Plasma-discover Ubuntu xenial *

References

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