Vulnerability in KDE K-Mail
CVE-2007-1265
KMail 1.9.5 and earlier does not properly use the --status-fd argument when invoking GnuPG, which prevents KMail from visually distinguishing between signed and unsigned portions of OpenPGP messages with multiple components, which allows remote attackers to forge the contents of a message without detection.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (80.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- KDE K-Mail — versions 0.0.29.2, 1.0.23, 1.0.24
References
- lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2007-March/030514.html (mailing-list)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2353 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461958/30/7710/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.coresecurity.com/
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461958/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/24413 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/22759 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0835 (vdb-entry)