CVE-2016-7966

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2016-10-04
CWE:
CWE-88
Bugzilla:
1382286: CVE-2016-7966 kdepim: HTML injection in plain text viewer of KMail

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2016-7966 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of kdepim as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 or 7 as they did not include support for kmail, or are not shipped with vulnerable versions.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 4.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kdepim Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kdepim3 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kdepim Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kdepim Not affected

External References

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