CVE-2007-0537

The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.6 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2007-01-29

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Konqueror (Kde)

References

• http://osvdb.org/32975
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23932
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24013
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24065
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24442
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24463
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27108
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017591
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-10.xml
• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070206-1.txt
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:031
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:157
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0909.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457924/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22428
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-420-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0505
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1117
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10244