CVE-2018-6790 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Plasma-workspace

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information ExposureCWE-20 — Improper Input Validation9 documents7 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 54.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
KDE Plasma-workspace
Timeline
PublishedFeb 7
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. dataengines/notifications/notificationsengine.cpp allows remote attackers to discover client IP addresses via a URL in a notification, as demonstrated by the src attribute of an IMG element.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDkde/plasma-workspace< 5.12.0
▶Debiankde/plasma-workspace< 4:5.12.0-2+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-q5wj-8g6x-hgg2: An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2018-6790: An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5↗2018-02-07
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OSV
CVE-2018-6790: An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5↗2018-02-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element↗2018-02-08
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Debian
CVE-2018-6790: plasma-workspace - An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. dataengines/notif...↗2018
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6790 CVE-2018-6791 plasma-workspace: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2018-02-08
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6790 kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element [fedora-all]↗2018-02-08
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6790 kde-workspace: Missing sanitization of notifications allows to leak client IP address via IMG element↗2018-02-08
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