CVE-2021-28117

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...

CVE-2021-28117

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...

Updated discover package fixes a security vulnerability

Discover fetches the description and related texts of some applications/plugins from store.kde.org. That text is displayed to the user, after turning into a clickable link any part of the text that looks like a link. This is done for any kind of link, be it smb:// nfs:// etc. when in fact it only...

Phishing Attack

plasma-discover is vulnerable to phishing attack. The vulnerability exists through the fetching of the description and related texts of some applications/plugins from store.kde.org. The text displayed to the user, is a clickable link that is not limited to http/https links...