Medium severity · published Feb 7, 2018
CVE-2018-6790
An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0
5.3
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PL
Plasma-workspace · Kde
before 5.12.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6790
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6790
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2141
Vendor Advisory
https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=5bc696b5abcdb460c1017592e80b2d7f6ed3107c
Vendor Advisory
https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=8164beac15ea34ec0d1564f0557fe3e742bdd938
Issue Tracking
https://phabricator.kde.org/D10188
Vendor Advisory
https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.11.5-5.12.0-changelog.php
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