Published: 20/03/2021 Updated: 28/12/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

libdiscover/backends/KNSBackend/KNSResource.cpp in KDE Discover prior to 5.21.3 automatically creates links to potentially dangerous URLs (that are neither nor ) based on the content of the store.kde.org web site. (5.18.7 is also a fixed version.)

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A security issue has been found in Discover version 5212 Discover fetches the description and related texts of some applications/plugins from storekdeorg That text is displayed to the user, after turning into a clickable link any part of the text that looks like a link This is done for any kind of link, be it smb:// nfs:// etc when in fact ...

NVD-CWE-noinfo https://userbase.kde.org/Discover https://github.com/KDE/discover/releases https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/94478827aab63d2e2321f0ca9ec5553718798e60 https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20210310-1.txt https://github.com/KDE/discover/commit/fcd3b30552bf03a384b1a16f9bb8db029c111356 https://nvd.nist.gov https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-28117

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