CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-23853

7.8 HIGH Published 2022-02-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-02-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

The LSP (Language Server Protocol) plugin in KDE Kate before 21.12.2 and KTextEditor before 5.91.0 tries to execute the associated LSP server binary when opening a file of a given type. If this binary is absent from the PATH, it will try running the LSP server binary in the directory of the file that was just opened (due to a misunderstanding of the QProcess API, that was never intended). This can be an untrusted directory.

Affected configurations

• kde kate (< 21.12.2) • kde ktexteditor (< 5.91.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References