CVE-2007-3143

Exp

Visual truncation vulnerability in Konqueror 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar and possibly conduct phishing attacks via a long hostname, which is truncated after a certain number of characters, as demonstrated by a phishing attack using HTTP Basic Authentication.

Published: 2007-06-11 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2007-3143 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.99%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.54% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2007-3143

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-3143

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.45% 1.99% +1.54%
2 2026-04-12 0.76% 0.45% -0.31%
3 2026-01-28 — 0.76% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-3143

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-3143

OS Trackers for CVE-2007-3143

vendor priority summary link
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-3143
ubuntu low CVE-2007-3143 low priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (kdebase, opera), 10 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, upstream): not-affected 5, released 5. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-3143

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2007-3143

  • Red Hat (2007-08-17T00:00:00)

    Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252169 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-3143

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kde konqueror 3.5.5 cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:3.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-3143

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