CVE-2005-0131 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Quick Connection dialog in Konversation 0.15 inadvertently uses the user-provided password as the nickname instead of the user-provided nickname when connecting to the IRC server, which could leak the password to other users.

Published: 2005-01-22

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:berlios:konversation:0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-0132	The Quick Connection dialog in Konversation 0.15 inadvertently uses the user-provided password as the nickname instead of the user-provided nickname when connecting to the IRC server, which could leak the password to other users.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01149.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-January/031033.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110626383310742&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13919
http://secunia.com/advisories/13989
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012972
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-34.xml
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050121-1.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12312
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19038

History

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Subscriptions

Berlios Konversation

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-01-22T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:05:24.433Z

Reserved: 2005-01-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-0131

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-04-14T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-0131

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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