National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3143
Original release date:06/11/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Visual truncation vulnerability in Konqueror 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after a certain number of characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/17/2007)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252169
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
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External Source: BID
Name: 24352
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.0x000000.com/?i=334
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 43465
External Source: XF
Name: multiple-basic-authentication-spoofing(34983)