CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1171

2.1 LOW Published 2005-01-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-01-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• kde kde 3.2 • kde kde 3.2.1 • kde kde 3.2.2 • kde kde 3.2.3 • kde kde 3.3 • kde kde 3.3.1 • kde kde 3.3.2 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 10.0 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 10.1 • redhat fedora core core 2.0 • redhat fedora core core 3.0

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