DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6791

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6791

    Published: 7 Feb 2018Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-6791

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in soliduiserver/deviceserviceaction.cpp in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. When a vfat thumbdrive that contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged in and mounted through the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leading to a possibility of arbitrary command execution. An example of an offending volume label is "$(touch b)" -- this will create a file called b in the home folder.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6791

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: plasma-workspace

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/plasma-workspace?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4:5.12.0-2

    Affected versions

    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