CVE-2008-4382

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.

Affected products

KDE Konqueror: 3.5.9

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496849/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45645
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496849/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45645

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