CVE-2018-1000801

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 v3.0 NVD

5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

1.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 79th percentile

Published

2018-09-06

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096

Security advisories

• 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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry