CVE-2018-1000801

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4:17.12.2-2.1`
sid	Fixed	`4:17.12.2-2.1`
forky	Fixed	`4:17.12.2-2.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4:17.12.2-2.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4:17.12.2-2.1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000801

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.