7.5

CVE-2016-7968: kde kmail Code Injection

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-7968
Published 23-12-2016Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-7968 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Code Injection vulnerability in kde kmail. EPSS estimates a 1.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.17%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 23-12-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. HTML Mail contents were not sanitized for JavaScript and included code was executed.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

67%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.17% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.17%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Kde1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • kdepim< 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.1

2 vendors · 2 products

References

5 links