CVE-2018-1000801 — Path Traversal in Okular

CWE-22 — Path Traversal9 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.2%
top 15.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
KDE OkularDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 6
Latest updateMay 14

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiankde/okular< 4:17.12.2-2.1+3
▶NVDkde/okular18.08

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

Patches

Patch: bugs.kde.org ↗Patch: cgit.kde.org ↗Patch: bugs.kde.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-5932-x8gj-85rm: okular version 18↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2018-1000801: okular version 18↗2018-09-06
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OSV
CVE-2018-1000801: okular version 18↗2018-09-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Okular vulnerability↗2021-03-15
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Red Hat
okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp↗2018-09-06
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Debian
CVE-2018-1000801: okular - okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-1000801 okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp [fedora-all]↗2018-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-1000801 okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp↗2018-09-06
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