CVE-2005-4684: Kde Konqueror

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Konqueror can associate a cookie with multiple domains when the DNS resolver has a non-root domain in its search list, which allows remote attackers to trick a user into accepting a cookie for a hostname formed via search-list expansion of the hostname entered by the user, or steal a cookie for an expanded hostname, as demonstrated by an attacker who operates an ap1.com Internet web site to steal cookies associated with an ap1.com.example.com intranet web site.

Affected products

• Kde Konqueror: version 0.1 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.2.2 only; version 3.0 only; …

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.