A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in KDE Konqueror (Web Browser). Affected is some unknown functionality of the file ap1.com of the component DNS Resolver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Konqueror can associate a cookie with multiple domains when the DNS resolver has a non-root domain in its search list, which allows remote attackers to trick a user into accepting a cookie for a hostname formed via search-list expansion of the hostname entered by the user, or steal a cookie for an expanded hostname, as demonstrated by an attacker who operates an ap1.com Internet web site to steal cookies associated with an ap1.com.example.com intranet web site.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2005 (Website). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-4684 since 01/31/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (25291). The entry 28003 is pretty similar.

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Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• KDE

Name

• Konqueror

Version

• 0.1
• 2.1.1
• 2.1.2
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 3.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.5b
• 3.1
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 3.1.3
• 3.1.4
• 3.1.5
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2.6
• 3.2.3
• 3.3
• 3.3.1
• 3.3.2

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• open-source

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