Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-6790
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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"
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"published_at": "2018-02-07T02:29:01.373+00:00"
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