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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-6790

An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. dataengines/notifications/notificationsengine.cpp allows remote attackers to discover client IP addresses via a URL in a notification, as demonstrated by the src attribute of an IMG element.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:04 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-6790

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Feb 2018, 02:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. dataengines/notifications/notificationsengine.cpp allows remote attackers to discover client IP addresses via a URL in a notification, as demonstrated by the src attribute of an IMG element.

osv:CVE-2018-6790
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6790",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2018-6790",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. dataengines/notifications/notificationsengine.cpp allows remote attackers to discover client IP addresses via a URL in a notification, as demonstrated by the src attribute of an IMG element.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-6790",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                },
                {
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        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.543036613Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2141",
        "https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=5bc696b5abcdb460c1017592e80b2d7f6ed3107c",
        "https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=8164beac15ea34ec0d1564f0557fe3e742bdd938",
        "https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.11.5-5.12.0-changelog.php",
        "https://phabricator.kde.org/D10188"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-6790",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440044,
  "published_at": "2018-02-07T02:29:01.373+00:00"
}