CVE-2018-1000801 Information

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:N

Reference

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096 https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.5