CVE-2014-8878
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.21% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 68.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-09-27 17:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:33Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-11-14
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c1d20d9e3febe37d43beadb2c73a41045550f0fa00902d513061e23b7054e661
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com75986http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75986
- bugs.kde.orghttps://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340312
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243777
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150716 Re: CVE Request: kmail: Attachments are not encrypted whenhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/16/10
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- kdepim No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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