CVE-2020-11880
MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 17, 2020 at 05:07 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:50 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorKmail
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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
Description
An 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 files to a composed email message without showing a warning to the user, as demonstrated by an attach=.bash_history value.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (2)
x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://cgit.kde.org/kmail.git/commit/?id=2a348eccd352260f192d9b449492071bbf2b34b1x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://cgit.kde.org/kmail.git/tag/?h=v19.12.3CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- LOW
- Integrity
- LOW
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
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StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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