CVE-2005-0237: Kde

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Konqueror 3.2.1 on KDE 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph characters from other character sets, which facilitates phishing attacks.

Affected products

• Kde Kde: version 3.2.1 only
• Kde Konqueror: version 3.2.1 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.