CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-28117
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
libdiscover/backends/KNSBackend/KNSResource.cpp in KDE Discover before 5.21.3 automatically creates links to potentially dangerous URLs (that are neither https:// nor http://) based on the content of the store.kde.org web site. (5.18.7 is also a fixed version.)
Affected configurations
• kde discover (< 5.21.3)
References
- https://github.com/KDE/discover/commit/fcd3b30552bf03a384b1a16f9bb8db029c111356 Patch
- https://github.com/KDE/discover/releases Third Party Advisory
- https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/94478827aab63d2e2321f0ca9ec5553718798e60 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20210310-1.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://userbase.kde.org/Discover Product, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/KDE/discover/commit/fcd3b30552bf03a384b1a16f9bb8db029c111356 Patch
- https://github.com/KDE/discover/releases Third Party Advisory
- https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/94478827aab63d2e2321f0ca9ec5553718798e60 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20210310-1.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://userbase.kde.org/Discover Product, Vendor Advisory