Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 20, 2021· Updated Oct 15, 2024

CVE-2021-28117

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.)

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Affected products

KDE/Discoverdescription
Oracle Corporation/Discovererllm-fuzzy
Range: <5.21.3

Patches

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References

github.com/KDE/discover/commit/fcd3b30552bf03a384b1a16f9bb8db029c111356mitre
github.com/KDE/discover/releasesmitre
invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/commit/94478827aab63d2e2321f0ca9ec5553718798e60mitre
kde.org/info/security/advisory-20210310-1.txtmitre
userbase.kde.org/Discovermitre

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