CVE-2005-3856 — The Popular URL capability (popularurls.cpp) in Krusader 1.60.0 and 1.70.0-beta1 saves passwords in cleartext in the krusaderrc file when the user enters URLs containing passwords in the panel URL field, which might allow attackers to access other sites

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MEDIUM

The Popular URL capability (popularurls.cpp) in Krusader 1.60.0 and 1.70.0-beta1 saves passwords in cleartext in the krusaderrc file when the user enters URLs containing passwords in the panel URL field, which might allow attackers to access other sites

Published Nov 27, 2005

4.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.97%

Description

The Popular URL capability (popularurls.cpp) in Krusader 1.60.0 and 1.70.0-beta1 saves passwords in cleartext in the krusaderrc file when the user enters URLs containing passwords in the panel URL field, which might allow attackers to access other sites.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.97% 0.00975

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00975

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.97% (0.00975)	60.70th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.97% (0.00975)	57.32th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.36% (0.00355)	55.64th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.10% (0.00097)	42.37th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.10% (0.00097)	39.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336169
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1367
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1368
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336169		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1367		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1368		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 27, 2005

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Nov 27, 2005

Link CVE-2005-3856

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-3856

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-3856