CVE-2016-7966
HIGHKMail < 4.4.0 - HTML Injection via Malicious URL with Quote Character
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNMM5TVPTJQFPJ3YDF4DPXDFW3GQLWLY/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00065.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360
Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3697
Scores
CVSS v3
7.3
EPSS
0.0027
EPSS Percentile
50.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Details
CWE
CWE-94
Status
published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
fedoraproject/fedora
25
kde/kmail
< 4.4.0
suse/linux_enterprise
12.0
Published
Dec 23, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026