CVE-2016-7967: Kde Kmail

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Kde Kmail: up to and including 5.3.0

Published 2016-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.