Directory Traversal Affecting kde/okular package, versions [0,18.08.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.85% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KDEOKULAR-2365529
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-1000801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kde/okular to version 18.08.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal 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

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CVSS Base Scores

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