Vulnerability CVE-2018-1000801
Published: 2018-09-06

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

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
KDE -> Okular 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
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
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