What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-8878

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-310

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.

Affected products

• 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

Get alerted when CVE-2014-8878 or the next vulnerability affects your stack