CVE-2020-11880 (GCVE-0-2020-11880)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-04-17 17:07 – Updated: 2024-08-04 11:42
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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