Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-7966
Through a malicious URL that contained a quote character it was possible to inject HTML code in KMail's plaintext viewer. Due to the parser used on the URL it was not possible to include the equal sign (=) or a space into the injected HTML, which greatly reduces the available HTML functionality. Although it is possible to include an HTML comment indicator to hide content.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 33.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.3
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00065.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3697
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNMM5TVPTJQFPJ3YDF4DPXDFW3GQLWLY/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00065.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3697
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNMM5TVPTJQFPJ3YDF4DPXDFW3GQLWLY/
Products affected by CVE-2016-7966
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cpe:2.3:a:kde:kmail:4.4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25
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cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise:12.0