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CVE-2006-7139

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-7139 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Kmail 1.9.1 on KDE 3.5.2 when "Prefer HTML to Plain Text" is enabled. Remote attackers can crash the application by sending a specially crafted HTML email containing certain table and frameset tags, leading to a segmentation fault. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network attack vector with high complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, though a proof-of-concept exploit is available on ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:k-mail:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-28816 · Oct 16, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0303 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-7139

CVE-2006-7139

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0293.html
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/24889
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/2347
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/29557
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/448766/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/448768/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/20539