{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 4 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7966 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2016-7966 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 23 Dec 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-7966 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-7966 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 23 Dec 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7966 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-7966/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-7966/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-7966","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-7966/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-7966","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7966","DLA-673-1","DSA-3697-1","GHSA-833g-vcgj-6xrj","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7966","openSUSE-SU-2016:2558-1","openSUSE-SU-2016:2559-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10509-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"KDE KMail","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can inject HTML into KMail's plaintext viewer via a malicious URL, potentially leading to code execution.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"fedora","vendor":"fedoraproject"},{"product":"kmail","vendor":"kde"},{"product":"linux_enterprise","vendor":"suse"}],"cvss":{"score":7.3,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-94","name":"Improper Control of Generation of Code"}],"description":"Through 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 sign (=) or a space into the injected HTML, which greatly reduces the available HTML functionality. Although it is possible to include an HTML comment indicator to hide content.","ecosystems":["SUSE:Package Hub 12 SP1"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7966","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","fedoraproject:fedora","suse:linux_enterprise"],"type":"xss","year":"2016"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7967"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"SUSE:Package Hub 12 SP1","fixed":["5.20.0-6.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"kcoreaddons","purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/kcoreaddons\u0026distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012%20SP1","source":"openSUSE-SU-2016:2558-1"},{"ecosystem":"SUSE:Package Hub 12 SP1","fixed":["5.20.0-6.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"kcoreaddons","purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/kcoreaddons\u0026distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012%20SP1","source":"openSUSE-SU-2016:2559-1"}],"prev":{"headline":"Open redirect in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-7965"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2016-12-23","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"SUSE","prefix":"openSUSE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An attacker can inject HTML into KMail's plaintext viewer via a malicious URL, potentially leading to code execution.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-7966/"}