CVE-2005-0237

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Konqueror 3.2.1 on KDE 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.

Affected products

Kde: 3.2.1
KDE Konqueror: 3.2.1

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031460.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/14162
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050316-2.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:058
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-325.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427976/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12461
http://www.shmoo.com/idn
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19236
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10671

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