Medium severity · published Sep 6, 2018
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…
5.5
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
OK
Okular · Kde
through 18.08 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000801
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000801
Exploit
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096
Patch
https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303
More from Debian Linux
10.0
CVE-2025-32433
Erlang/OTP SSH Vulnerable to Pre-Authentication RCE
10.0
CVE-2025-24201
Apple Multiple Products WebKit Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability
10.0
CVE-2021-44228
Apache Log4j2 JNDI features do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints
10.0
CVE-2015-3306
ProFTPD Improper Access Control Vulnerability
9.8
CVE-2026-111497
Out-of-Bounds Write in Google Brotli Decoder