| Name | 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.) |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| plasma-discover (PTS) | buster | 5.14.5.1-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.20.5-3+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.27.5-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.27.10.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - plasma-discover <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - plasma-discover <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20210310-1.txt
Introduced in: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/8bea95730eabb439b0528da01fb1e0cc6fe179b7
Plasma 5.21: https://commits.kde.org/plasma/discover/94478827aab63d2e2321f0ca9ec5553718798e60
Plasma 5.18: https://commits.kde.org/plasma/discover/fcd3b30552bf03a384b1a16f9bb8db029c111356