CVE-2014-8878

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.012 · 68 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.21% (68th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.05.4mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-310USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
kde kmail= 4.11.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:kde:kmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-09-28modified 2026-06-17

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references (12)

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