CVE-2018-1000801

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    CVE-2018-1000801

    Published: 6 Sept 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: 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, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096, https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v18.08.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High