CVE-2004-1171

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

KDE 3.2.x and 3.3.0 through 3.3.2, when saving credentials that are (1) manually entered by the user or (2) created by the SMB protocol handler, stores those credentials for plaintext in the user's .desktop file, which may be created with world-readable permissions, which could allow local users to obtain usernames and passwords for remote resources such as SMB shares.

Affected products

Kde: 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.3, 3.3.1 (+1)
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 10.0, 10.1
RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0, core_3.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-11/1292.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110178786809694&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110261063201488&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13477
http://secunia.com/advisories/13486
http://secunia.com/advisories/13560
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012471
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-051.shtml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-16.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/305294
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041209-1.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:150

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