THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-4514
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2008-4514

Konqueror vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
7.7%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
The HTML parser in KDE Konqueror 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a font tag with a long color value, which triggers an assertion error.
Affected vendor
Konqueror
Affected product
Konqueror
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2008-10-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-4514

  • Confirm whether Konqueror Konqueror is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4514.
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