CVE-2016-7968
Published on: 12/23/2016 12:00:00 AM UTC
Last Modified on: 03/23/2021 11:27:06 PM UTC
Certain versions of Kmail from Kde contain the following vulnerability:
KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. HTML Mail contents were not sanitized for JavaScript and included code was executed.
- CVE-2016-7968 has been assigned by
[email protected] to track the vulnerability - currently rated as MEDIUM severity.
CVSS3 Score: 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack Vector ⓘ |
Attack Complexity |
Privileges Required |
User Interaction |
|
---|---|---|---|---|
NETWORK | LOW | NONE | NONE | |
Scope | Confidentiality Impact |
Integrity Impact |
Availability Impact |
|
UNCHANGED | LOW | LOW | NONE |
CVSS2 Score: 7.5 - HIGH
Access Vector ⓘ |
Access Complexity |
Authentication |
---|---|---|
NETWORK | LOW | NONE |
Confidentiality Impact |
Integrity Impact |
Availability Impact |
PARTIAL | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
CVE References
Description | Tags ⓘ | Link |
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Vendor Advisory www.kde.org text/plain |
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KMail Multiple Security Vulnerabilities | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry cve.report (archive) text/html |
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oss-security - Re: KMail vulnerabilites: need 3 CVE | Third Party Advisory www.openwall.com text/html |
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There are currently no QIDs associated with this CVE
Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)
Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
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Application | Kde | Kmail | All | All | All | All |
- cpe:2.3:a:kde:kmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE