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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-1000801

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

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CVE-2018-1000801

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Sept 2018, 18:29 UTC

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

osv:CVE-2018-1000801
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000801",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "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",
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        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2018-09-06T18:29:00.397+00:00"
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