CVE-2018-6791

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

An issue was discovered in soliduiserver/deviceserviceaction.cpp in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. When a vfat thumbdrive that contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged in and mounted through the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leading to a possibility of arbitrary command execution. An example of an offending volume label is "$(touch b)" -- this will create a file called b in the home folder.

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

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`5.12.0-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4:5.12.0-2`
sid	Fixed	`4:5.12.0-2`
forky	Fixed	`4:5.12.0-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`4:5.12.0-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`4:5.12.0-2`

References

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

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