CVE-2020-26164

MEDIUM

Kdeconnect < 20.08.2 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

In kdeconnect-kde (aka KDE Connect) before 20.08.2, an attacker on the local network could send crafted packets that trigger use of large amounts of CPU, memory, or network connection slots, aka a Denial of Service attack.

References (18)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00016.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00018.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/13/4

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/13/5

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/14/1

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/30/1

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176268

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/024e5f23db8d8ad3449714b906b46094baaffb89

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/4fbd01a3d44a0bcca888c49a77ec7cfd10e113d7

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/542d94a70c56aa386c8d4d793481ce181b0422e8

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/613899be24b6e2a6b3e5cc719efce8ae8a122991

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/8112729eb0f13e6947984416118531078e65580d

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[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/commit/ce0f00fc2d3eccb51d0af4eba61a4f60de086a59

[Release Notes, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde/releases

[Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory] https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20201002-1.txt

[Product] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/official/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00014.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-16

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0009

EPSS Percentile 26.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Affected Products (5)

kde/kdeconnect < 20.08.2

opensuse/backports_sle

opensuse/leap

Timeline

Published Oct 07, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026