CVE-2003-0459 in KDE

Summary

KDE Konqueror for KDE 3.1.2 and earlier does not remove authentication credentials from URLs of the "user:password@host" form in the HTTP-Referer header, which could allow remote web sites to steal the credentials for pages that link to the sites.

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Reservation

06/26/2003

Disclosure

08/27/2003

Status

Confirmed

Entries

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
20741	KDE Konqueror Password information disclosure	200	Not defined	Not defined	CVE-2003-0459
204	KDE Konqueror Referer information disclosure		Proof-of-Concept	Official fix	CVE-2003-0459

Sources

• MITRE
• NVD
• CVE Details