CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1000801
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open a specially crafted Okular archive. This issue appears to have been corrected in version 18.08.1
Affected configurations
• kde okular (<= 18.08)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303 Third Party Advisory