CVE-2005-0131

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Quick Connection dialog in Konversation 0.15 inadvertently uses the user-provided password as the nickname instead of the user-provided nickname when connecting to the IRC server, which could leak the password to other users.

Affected products

Berlios Konversation: 0.15

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-January/031033.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110626383310742&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13919
http://secunia.com/advisories/13989
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012972
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-34.xml
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050121-1.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12312
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19038
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-January/031033.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110626383310742&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13919

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