CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7967

8.1 HIGH Published 2016-12-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-284, CWE-94

Description

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. Since the generated html is executed in the local file security context by default access to remote and local URLs was enabled.

Affected configurations

• kde kmail (<= 5.3.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References