CVE-2018-1000801

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
KDE Okular: through 18.08

References

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096
https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096
https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303

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