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high 8.1

CVE-2016-7967 json

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled.

published 2016-12-23 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8815

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. Since the generated html is executed in the local file security context by default access to remote and local URLs was enabled.

Patch / fix

  • messagelib Arch Linux 16.08.1-2

arch linux advisories AVG-44

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7967 updated cvss 6.3

kdepim: JavaScript access to local and remote URLs in Kmail

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kdepim Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kdepim, kdepim-libs, kdepim3-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kdepim, kdepim-libs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.