CVE-2018-19120

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The HTML thumbnailer plugin in KDE Applications before 18.12.0 allows attackers to trigger outbound TCP connections to arbitrary IP addresses, leading to disclosure of the source IP address.

Affected products

Kde Applications: before 18.12.0 — fixed in 18.12.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kde Applications 18.12.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649420
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CWRCGXLPJHM4OFD66BINH2FIMYHRCRKF/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649420
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CWRCGXLPJHM4OFD66BINH2FIMYHRCRKF/

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