CVE-2020-11880

Summary

CVECVE-2020-11880
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-17 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-04-29 19:18:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in KDE KMail before 19.12.3. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068) "mailto?attach=..." parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make KMail attach local files to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by an attach=.bash_history value.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Kmail All All All All
Application Kde Kmail All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cgit.kde.org/kmail.git/tag MISC cgit.kde.org Vendor Advisory
cgit.kde.org/kmail.git/commit MISC cgit.kde.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180717 Debian Security Update for kmail (CVE-2020-11880)
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