kioslave/http/http.cpp in KIO in kdelibs 4.10.3 and earlier allows attackers to discover credentials via a crafted request that triggers an…

published 2014-02-05 12y ago modified 2026-06-16 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-2053

cvss: 5.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.0%; EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits: 0; none known

kioslave/http/http.cpp in KIO in kdelibs 4.10.3 and earlier allows attackers to discover credentials via a crafted request that triggers an "internal server error," which includes the username and password in an error message.

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-2074 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 2.1

kdelibs: prints passwords contained in HTTP URLs in error messages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kdelibs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kdelibs, kdelibs-common, kdelibs-apidocs
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2013-2074
NVD CVE-2013-2074

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