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CVE-2016-7968

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2016-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. HTML Mail contents were not sanitized for JavaScript and included code was executed.

Affected products

• KDE Kmail: through 5.3.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360
• https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20161006-3.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360

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