CVE-2016-7966

Description

Through a malicious URL that contained a quote character it was possible to inject HTML code in KMails 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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.3
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.391

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
the KDE PIM libraries (USN-3100-1) libkpimutils4_4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3_i386.debLinux
the KDE PIM libraries (USN-3100-1) libkpimutils4_4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234