UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23853

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23853

    Published: 11 Feb 2022Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-23853

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-23853, https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20220131-1.txt, https://commits.kde.org/kate/361dd43e42994829dbdb35e78fb7698d27cbb0e2, https://commits.kde.org/kate/6fc3bf6e5bd540e842e32c4a959c2158c8573be5, https://commits.kde.org/kate/92a9c65e30b4b63b8b116eb5c8dcb1e1a2d867bc, https://apps.kde.org/kate/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23853

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kate

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/kate?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

    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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