CVE-2016-7966 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00065.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3697 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNMM5TVPTJQFPJ3YDF4DPXDFW3GQLWLY/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

7.3