CVSS 3.0
7.3 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LCVE-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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- kde:kmail
- suse:linux_enterprise
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/