CVE-2006-7139

Exp

Kmail 1.9.1 on KDE 3.5.2, with "Prefer HTML to Plain Text" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTML e-mail with certain table and frameset tags that trigger a segmentation fault, possibly involving invalid free or delete operations.

Published: 2007-03-07 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-7139 is rated Exploit Available (58.8/100): CVSS Low severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 9.47%, 93th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.01% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-7139

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
28816 exploit_db edb 2006-10-16 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-7139

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-02-28 8.46% 9.47% +1.01%
2 2025-10-24 8.16% 8.46% +0.30%
3 2025-05-22 — 8.16% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-7139

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.6 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 4.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-7139

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-7139

vendor priority summary link
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-7139
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-7139 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kdepim), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): ignored 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-7139

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2006-7139

  • Red Hat (2007-03-08T00:00:00)

    Not vulnerable. Our testing found that this issue did not affect the versions of Kmail as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-7139

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kde k-mail 1.9.1 cpe:2.3:a:kde:k-mail:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-7139

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