CVE-2018-1000801
MEDIUMOkular < 18.08 - Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Write via Document Archive Extraction
Title source: llmDescription
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
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47
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