Medium severity · published Mar 12, 2020
CVE-2018-19516
messagepartthemes/default/defaultrenderer.cpp in messagelib in KDE Applications before 18.12.0 does not properly restrict the handling of an http-equiv="REFRESH" value
5.3
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
messagepartthemes/default/defaultrenderer.cpp in messagelib in KDE Applications before 18.12.0 does not properly restrict the handling of an http-equiv="REFRESH" value.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 66% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KA
Kde Applications · Kde
before 18.12 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19516
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19516
Patch
https://cgit.kde.org/messagelib.git/commit/messageviewer/src/messagepartthemes/default/defaultrenderer.cpp?id=34765909cdf8e55402a8567b48fb288839c61612
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