KDE up to 3.3.2 information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in KDE up to 3.3.2. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 10/06/2004. The weakness was disclosed 01/10/2005 by Daniel Fabian (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securiteam.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1171 since 12/10/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 62 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18921 (FreeBSD : konqueror -- Password Disclosure for SMB Shares (4593cb09-4c81-11d9-983e-000c6e8f12ef)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18398), Tenable (18921), SecurityFocus (BID 11866†), OSVDB (12248†) and Secunia (SA13486†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.8

VulDB Base Score: 4.0
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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 18921
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : konqueror -- Password Disclosure for SMB Shares (4593cb09-4c81-11d9-983e-000c6e8f12ef)
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OpenVAS ID: 52278
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: kdebase, kdelibs
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Recommended: Upgrade
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10/06/2004 🔍
11/29/2004 +54 days 🔍
12/06/2004 +7 days 🔍
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01/10/2005 +25 days 🔍
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07/13/2005 +48 days 🔍
03/10/2015 +3527 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securiteam.com⛔
Researcher: Daniel Fabian
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2004-1171 (🔍)
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X-Force: 18398
SecurityFocus: 11866 - KDE Plaintext Password Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia: 13486 - Fedora update for kdebase/kdelibs, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 12248 - KDE Konqueror Shortcut SMB Share Password Disclosure
SecurityTracker: 1012471
Vulnerability Center: 8157 - KDE 3.2 - 3.2.3, 3.3 - 3.3.2 Allows Obtaining Usernames and Passwords, Low

Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 12:14 PM
Updated: 11/21/2024 05:50 AM
Changes: 03/10/2015 12:14 PM (74), 06/02/2019 12:19 AM (9), 11/21/2024 05:50 AM (17)
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