Vulnerability CVE-2016-7966

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2016-7966 (CCN-120266)

Assigned:

2016-12-23

Published:

2016-12-23

Updated:

2016-12-27

Summary:

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 v3 Severity:

7.3 High (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
6.4 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Low Integrity (I): Low Availibility (A): Low

5.4 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
4.7 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Low Integrity (I): Low Availibility (A): None

CVSS v2 Severity:

7.5 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): Partial

5.5 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Partial Integrity (I): Partial Availibility (A): None

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-94

Vulnerability Consequences:

Data Manipulation

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2016-7966

Source: SUSE
Type: Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2016:2559

Source: DEBIAN
Type: Third Party Advisory
DSA-3697

Source: MLIST
Type: Third Party Advisory
[oss-security] 20161004 Re: KMail vulnerabilites: need 3 CVE

Source: BID
Type: Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
93360

Source: CCN
Type: BID-93360
KMail Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
kmail-cve20167966-html-injection(120266)

Source: FEDORA
Type: Third Party Advisory
FEDORA-2016-92c112a380

Source: CCN
Type: KDE Project Security Advisory
KMail: HTML injection in plain text viewer

Source: CCN
Type: WhiteSource Vulnerability Database
CVE-2016-7966

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:kde:kmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version <= 4.4.0)

Configuration 2:

cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:suse:linux_enterprise:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:kde:kmail:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:20167966	V	CVE-2016-7966	2022-06-30
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:112495	P	kcoreaddons-5.29.0-1.1 on GA media (Moderate)	2022-01-17
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:105988	P	Security update for libvirt (Important) (in QA)	2021-12-30
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25502	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:24886	P	Security update for ghostscript (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26286	P	Security update for libcdio (Low)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25215	P	Security update for systemd (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25590	P	Security update for dovecot22 (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:24950	P	Security update for openssh (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:26321	P	Security update for kcoreaddons (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25299	P	Security update for webkit2gtk3 (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25604	P	Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25077	P	Security update for clamav (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25449	P	Security update for MozillaFirefox (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:24875	P	Security update for tiff (Moderate)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25648	P	Security update for python36 (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:org.opensuse.security:def:25158	P	Security update for ceph (Important)	2020-12-01
oval:com.ubuntu.precise:def:20167966000	V	CVE-2016-7966 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) - medium.	2016-12-23
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20167966000	V	CVE-2016-7966 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.	2016-12-23
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201679660000000	V	CVE-2016-7966 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2016-12-23
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20167966000	V	CVE-2016-7966 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2016-12-23
oval:org.cisecurity:def:1339	P	DSA-3697-1 -- kdepimlibs -- security update	2016-12-09

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