CVE-2007-4229

Exp

Unspecified vulnerability in KDE Konqueror 3.5.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (failed assertion and application crash) via certain malformed HTML, as demonstrated by a document containing TEXTAREA, BUTTON, BR, BDO, PRE, FRAMESET, and A tags. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Published: 2007-08-08 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2007-4229 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.12%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2007-4229

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
30444 exploit_db edb 2007-03-05 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-4229

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 2026-03-27 4.23% 4.12% -0.11%
2 2026-01-24 2.61% 4.23% +1.61%
3 2025-03-30 — 2.61% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-4229

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-4229

OS Trackers for CVE-2007-4229

vendor priority summary link
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-4229
ubuntu negligible CVE-2007-4229 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kdebase), 8 status rows across 8 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, upstream): ignored 7, needed 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-4229

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2007-4229

  • Red Hat (2007-08-09T00:00:00)

    Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security flaw.

  • Mandriva (2007-09-18T00:00:00)

    Mandriva does not consider crashes of client applications such as Konqueror to be a security issue.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-4229

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kde konqueror <= 3.5.7 cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-4229

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