Kmail

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Kmail, a product in the communications space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 13 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Kmail.

• CVE-2021-38373In KDE KMail 19.12.3 (aka 5.13.3), the SMTP STARTTLS option is not honored (and cleartext messages are sent) unless "Server requires authentication" is checked.5.3Aug 10, 2021
• CVE-2020-15954KDE KMail 19.12.3 (aka 5.13.3) engages in unencrypted POP3 communication during times when the UI indicates that encryption is in use.6.5Jul 27, 2020
• CVE-2020-11880An issue was discovered in KDE KMail before 19.12.3. By using the proprietary (non-RFC6068) "mailto?attach=..." parameter, a website (or other source of mailto links) can make KMail attach local fi...6.5Apr 17, 2020
• CVE-2019-10732In KDE KMail 5.2.3, an attacker in possession of S/MIME or PGP encrypted emails can wrap them as sub-parts within a crafted multipart email. The encrypted part(s) can further be hidden using HTML/C...4.3Apr 7, 2019
• CVE-2017-17689The S/MIME specification allows a Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) malleability-gadget attack that can indirectly lead to plaintext exfiltration, aka EFAIL.5.9May 16, 2018
• CVE-2014-8878KDE KMail does not encrypt attachments in emails when "automatic encryption" is enabled, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.5.9Sep 27, 2017
• CVE-2017-9604KDE kmail before 5.5.2 and messagelib before 5.5.2, as distributed in KDE Applications before 17.04.2, do not ensure that a plugin's sign/encrypt action occurs during use of the Send Later feature,...7.5Jun 13, 2017
• CVE-2016-7966Through a malicious URL that contained a quote character it was possible to inject HTML code in KMail's plaintext viewer. Due to the parser used on the URL it was not possible to include the equal ...7.3Dec 23, 2016
• CVE-2016-7967KMail 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 U...8.1Dec 23, 2016
• CVE-2016-7968KMail 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.6.5Dec 23, 2016
• CVE-2006-7062calendar.php in Kamgaing Email System (kmail) 2.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the full path of the server via an invalid d parameter, which leaks the path in an error message.7.8Feb 24, 2007
• CVE-2006-2104Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Kamgaing Email System (kmail) 2.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) d parameter to main.ph...6.8Apr 29, 2006
• CVE-2005-0404KMail 1.7.1 in KDE 3.3.2 allows remote attackers to spoof email information, such as whether the email has been digitally signed or encrypted, via HTML formatted email.5.0Apr 13, 2005