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CVE-2012-3413

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3413 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTMLQuoteColorer::process function within KDE PIM versions 4.6 through 4.8. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into a user's email by failing to disable JavaScript, Java, and Plugins. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), exploitation requires medium attack complexity and could lead to information disclosure or defacement, but not confidentiality, integrity, or availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low current threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kde_pim:4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kde_pim:4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0248 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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-2012-3413Moderate

kdepim: message viewer defaults to enabling java, javascript, and plugins

Jul 2, 2012

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/083946.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-July/084262.html
secunia.com / advisories/50008
Vendor Advisory
projects.kde.org / projects/kde/kdepim/repository/revisions/dbb2f72f4745e00f53031965a9c10b2d6862bd54
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-1512-1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/07/13/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/07/13/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/07/16/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/11