CVE-2024-1433

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    CVE-2024-1433

    Published: 11 Feb 2024Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: KDE Plasma Workspace Theme File eventpluginsmanager.cpp enabledPlugins path traversal

    Details: A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in KDE Plasma Workspace up to 5.93.0. This affects the function EventPluginsManager::enabledPlugins of the file components/calendar/eventpluginsmanager.cpp of the component Theme File Handler. The manipulation of the argument pluginId leads to path traversal. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The patch is named 6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-253407. NOTE: This requires write access to user's home or the installation of third party global themes.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/1xxx/CVE-2024-1433.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1433, https://vuldb.com/?id.253407, https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.253407, https://github.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/commit/6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- f8357b6911399a375d88446d5609c4bdec0202ca
    Fixed -6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01

    Affected versions

    5.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
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    High