UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000801

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000801

    Published: 6 Sept 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Aliases:
    USN-4830-1

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000801, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096, https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4830-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000801

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: okular

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/okular@4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4:15.08.2-0ubuntu1
    4:15.08.2-0ubuntu2
    4:15.08.2-0ubuntu3

    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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