PT-2016-7449
CVE-2016-7966
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Published
2016-10-05
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Updated
2016-12-27
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
KMail (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue allows for HTML code injection in KMail's plaintext viewer through a malicious URL containing a quote character. However, the parser used on the URL limits the injected HTML functionality by not allowing the inclusion of the equal sign (=) or a space. It is possible to include an HTML comment indicator to hide content.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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