CVE-2022-23853

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    CVE-2022-23853

    Published: 11 Feb 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://apps.kde.org/kate/, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23853.json, https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20220131-1.txt, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23853, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-21

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -418d4f1ec5dd709af38fb9d9e247b3e1c7bc83ad

    Affected versions

    v5.91.0-rc1

    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
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