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CVE-2014-3494 json

kio/usernotificationhandler.cpp in the POP3 kioslave in kdelibs 4.10.95 before 4.13.3 does not properly generate warning notifications, whi…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-3499

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

kio/usernotificationhandler.cpp in the POP3 kioslave in kdelibs 4.10.95 before 4.13.3 does not properly generate warning notifications, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid certificate.

Patch / fix

  • kde4libs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4:4.13.1-0ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3494

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kdelibs4 openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.14.27-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10011-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3494 updated cvss 5.8

kdelibs: POP3 kioslave silently accepted invalid SSL certificates

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kdelibs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kdelibs, kdelibs3, kdelibs-common, kdelibs-apidocs, kdelibs3-apidocs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kdelibs, kdelibs-common, kdelibs-apidocs, kdelibs-ktexteditor
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • quickgit.kde.org http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=bbae87dc1be3ae063796a582774bd5642cacdd5d&hp=1ccdb43ed3b32a7798eec6d39bb3c83a6e40228f referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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