Vulnerability CVE-2016-7968
Published: 2016-12-23   Modified: 2016-12-24

Description:
KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. HTML Mail contents were not sanitized for JavaScript and included code was executed.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
KDE -> Kmail 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360
https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20161006-3.txt
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