CVE-2018-1000801

MEDIUM

Okular < 18.08 - Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Write via Document Archive Extraction

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0218
EPSS Percentile 84.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
kde/okular < 18.08
Published Sep 06, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026