CVE-2018-6791
Published: 7 February 2018
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.
Priority
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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kde-workspace Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
artful |
Does not exist
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bionic |
Does not exist
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cosmic |
Does not exist
|
|
disco |
Does not exist
|
|
trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
|
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upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
xenial |
Does not exist
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plasma-workspace Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
artful |
Released
(4:5.10.5-0ubuntu1.1)
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bionic |
Not vulnerable
(4:5.12.1-0ubuntu1)
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|
cosmic |
Not vulnerable
(4:5.12.1-0ubuntu1)
|
|
disco |
Not vulnerable
(4:5.12.1-0ubuntu1)
|
|
trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
xenial |
Released
(4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1.1)
|
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Patches: upstream: https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=9db872df82c258315c6ebad800af59e81ffb9212 |
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 6.8 |
Attack vector | Physical |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity impact | High |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |