KDE Plasma Workspace Vulnerability: Path Traversal Attack Possible Remotely
CVE-2024-1433

3.1LOW

Key Information:

Vendor

Kde

Status
Plasma Workspace
Vendor
CVE Published:
11 February 2024

What is CVE-2024-1433?

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in KDE Plasma Workspace up to 5.93.0. This affects the function EventPluginsManager::enabledPlugins of the file components/calendar/eventpluginsmanager.cpp of the component Theme File Handler. The manipulation of the argument pluginId leads to path traversal. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The patch is named 6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-253407. NOTE: This requires write access to user's home or the installation of third party global themes.

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Affected Version(s)

Plasma Workspace 5.0

Plasma Workspace 5.1

Plasma Workspace 5.2

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.253407
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https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.253407
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https://github.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/commit/6cdf429163...
patch

CVSS V3.1

Score:
3.1
Severity:
LOW
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

CVSS V3.0

Score:
3.1
Severity:
LOW
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

VulDB GitHub Commit Analyzer
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