CVE-2016-7967

high

Published 2016-12-23 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.1

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

88%

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.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`16.08.1-2`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
kde	kmail	`{"endIncluding":"5.3.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-94 CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.