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FKIE_CVE-2019-14756

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-09-14 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:18

Severity

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

An issue was discovered in KaiOS 1.0, 2.5, and 2.5.12.5. The pre-installed Email application is vulnerable to HTML and JavaScript injection attacks. An attacker can send a specially crafted email to the victim that will inject HTML into the email application's UI as soon as the email is opened. At a bare minimum, this allows an attacker to take control over the Email application's UI (e.g., display a malicious prompt to the user asking them to re-enter their email credentials) and also allows an attacker to abuse any of the privileges available to the mobile application.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	https://research.nccgroup.com/2020/08/21/technical-advisory-multiple-html-injection-vulnerabilities-in-kaios-pre-installed-mobile-applications/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://research.nccgroup.com/2020/08/21/technical-advisory-multiple-html-injection-vulnerabilities-in-kaios-pre-installed-mobile-applications/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
kaiostech	kaios	1.0
kaiostech	kaios	2.5
kaiostech	kaios	2.5.12.5

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CVE-2019-14756 (GCVE-0-2019-14756)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-14 18:32 – Updated: 2024-08-05 00:26

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2316 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://research.nccgroup.com/2020/08/21/technica…	x_refsource_MISC

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