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CVE-2014-8600

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-12-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in KDE-Runtime 4.14.3 and earlier, kwebkitpart 1.3.4 and earlier, and kio-extras 5.1.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URI using the (1) zip, (2) trash, (3) tar, (4) thumbnail, (5) smtps, (6) smtp, (7) smb, (8) remote, (9) recentdocuments, (10) nntps, (11) nntp, (12) network, (13) mbox, (14) ldaps, (15) ldap, (16) fonts, (17) file, (18) desktop, (19) cgi, (20) bookmarks, or (21) ar scheme, which is not properly handled in an error message.

Affected products

• Kde-Runtime: through 4.14.2
• KDE Kio-Extras: through 5.1.1
• Opensuse: 13.1
• Urs Wolfer Kwebkitpart: through 1.3.3

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00068.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/54
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2414-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71190
• https://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-8600/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00068.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/54
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2414-1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71190
• https://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-8600/

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