Medium severity · published Feb 7, 2018
CVE-2018-6791
An issue was discovered in soliduiserver/deviceserviceaction.cpp in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0
6.8
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in soliduiserver/deviceserviceaction.cpp in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. When a vfat thumbdrive that contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged in and mounted through the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leading to a possibility of arbitrary command execution. An example of an offending volume label is "$(touch b)" -- this will create a file called b in the home folder.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 56% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
PL
Plasma-workspace · Kde
before 5.12.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6791
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6791
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389815
Vendor Advisory
https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=9db872df82c258315c6ebad800af59e81ffb9212
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4116
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