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.
Published: 2016-12-23
Score: 7.3 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-673-1 kdepimlibs security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3697-1 kdepimlibs security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-8814 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3100-1 KDE-PIM Libraries vulnerability
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Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Kde Kmail
Suse Linux Enterprise
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:13:21.538Z

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-7966

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-23T22:59:00.220

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-7966

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7966 - Bugzilla

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