CVE-2002-0970: Kde

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SSL capability for Konqueror in KDE 3.0.2 and earlier does not verify the Basic Constraints for an intermediate CA-signed certificate, which allows remote attackers to spoof the certificates of trusted sites via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected products

• Kde Kde: version 2.2.2 only; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only
• Kde Konqueror: version 2.2.2 only; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only

Published 2002-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.