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    CVE-2007-0537

    The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.

    Published:Jan 24, 2007
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Jan 29, 2007
    EPSS Score:0.04095
    CVSS Score:2.6

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Kde
    Product
    Konqueror
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2009-2537 (CVSS 4.3) — KDE Konqueror allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer va…
    CVE-2008-5712 (CVSS 5) — The HTML parser in KDE Konqueror 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash…
    CVE-2008-5698 (CVSS 4.3) — HTMLTokenizer::scriptHandler in Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9 and 3.5.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…
    CVE-2008-4382 (CVSS 5) — Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript…
    CVE-2007-6591 (CVSS 4.3) — KDE Konqueror 3.5.5 and 3.95.00, when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain n…
    CVE-2007-6000 (CVSS 5) — KDE Konqueror 3.5.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large HTTP co…
    CVE-2007-4229 (CVSS 4.3) — Unspecified vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of serv…
    CVE-2007-4225 (CVSS 6.8) — Visual truncation vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the URL address bar vi…
    CVE-2007-4224 (CVSS 4.3) — KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to spoof the URL address bar by calling setInterval with a small i…

    References

    http://osvdb.org/32975
    http://secunia.com/advisories/23932
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24013
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24065
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24442
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24463
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
    http://secunia.com/advisories/27108
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1017591
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-10.xml
    http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070206-1.txt
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:031
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:157
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0909.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457924/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22428
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-420-1
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0505
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1117
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10244
    http://osvdb.org/32975
    http://secunia.com/advisories/23932
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24013
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24065
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24442
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24463
    http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
    http://secunia.com/advisories/27108
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1017591
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-10.xml
    http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070206-1.txt
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:031
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:157
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0909.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457924/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22428
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-420-1
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0505
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1117
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10244

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High