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CVE-2003-0459

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

KDE Konqueror for KDE 3.1.2 and earlier does not remove authentication credentials from URLs of the "user:password@host" form in the HTTP-Referer header, which could allow remote web sites to steal the credentials for pages that link to the sites.

Affected products

• KDE Konqueror: 2.1.1, 2.2.2, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3 (+4)
• KDE Konqueror Embedded: 0.1
• RedHat Analog Real-Time Synthesizer: 2.1.1-5, 2.2-11
• RedHat Kdebase: 3.0.3-13
• RedHat Kdelibs: 2.1.1-5, 2.2-11, 3.0.0-10, 3.1-10
• RedHat Kdelibs Devel: 2.1.1-5, 2.2-11, 3.0.0-10, 3.0.3-8, 3.1-10
• RedHat Kdelibs Sound: 2.1.1-5, 2.2-11
• RedHat Kdelibs Sound Devel: 2.1.1-5, 2.2-11

References

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000747
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/007300.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105986238428061&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-361
• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030729-1.txt
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:079
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-235.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-236.html
• http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-45.txt
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A411
• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000747
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/007300.html

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