What is CVE-2016-7968?

CVE-2016-7968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kde Kmail, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-12-23.

How severe is CVE-2016-7968?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

RCE in Kde Kmail

CVE-2016-7968

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.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.012 (64.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Kde Kmail
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Third Party Advisory)
nvd@nist.gov (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-7968?: CVE-2016-7968 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Kde Kmail, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-12-23.
How severe is CVE-2016-7968?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.