CVE-2014-8878
medium
CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.9
Description
KDE KMail does not encrypt attachments in emails when "automatic encryption" is enabled, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| kde | kmail | 4.11.5 | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/16/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75986
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340312
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243777
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/16/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75986
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340312
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243777
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.