CVE-2022-23853

HIGH

KDE Kate <21.12.2 & KTextEditor <5.91.0 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The LSP (Language Server Protocol) plugin in KDE Kate before 21.12.2 and KTextEditor before 5.91.0 tries to execute the associated LSP server binary when opening a file of a given type. If this binary is absent from the PATH, it will try running the LSP server binary in the directory of the file that was just opened (due to a misunderstanding of the QProcess API, that was never intended). This can be an untrusted directory.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-21
Product, Vendor Advisory
https://apps.kde.org/kate/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 36.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-427
Status published
Products (2)
kde/kate < 21.12.2
kde/ktexteditor < 5.91.0
Published Feb 11, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026