Upstream information

CVE-2018-1000801 at MITRE

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

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1107591 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
  • okular >= 4.10.5-8.el7
  • okular-devel >= 4.10.5-8.el7
  • okular-libs >= 4.10.5-8.el7
  • okular-part >= 4.10.5-8.el7
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2020:1173
SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3
  • okular >= 17.04.2-12.1
  • okular-devel >= 17.04.2-12.1
  • okular-lang >= 17.04.2-12.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-684
SUSE Package Hub 15
  • okular >= 17.12.3-bp150.5.1
  • okular-devel >= 17.12.3-bp150.5.1
  • okular-lang >= 17.12.3-bp150.5.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-684
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • okular >= 17.12.3-lp150.5.1
  • okular-devel >= 17.12.3-lp150.5.1
  • okular-lang >= 17.12.3-lp150.5.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-684
openSUSE Leap 15.2
  • okular >= 20.04.2-lp152.1.1
  • okular-lang >= 20.04.2-lp152.1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.2 GA okular-20.04.2-lp152.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.3
  • okular >= 20.04.2-bp153.1.31
  • okular-lang >= 20.04.2-bp153.1.31
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.3 GA okular-20.04.2-bp153.1.31
openSUSE Leap 15.4
  • okular >= 21.12.3-bp154.1.25
  • okular-lang >= 21.12.3-bp154.1.25
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.4 GA okular-21.12.3-bp154.1.25
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • okular >= 21.08.1-1.2
  • okular-devel >= 21.08.1-1.2
  • okular-lang >= 21.08.1-1.2
  • okular-mobile >= 21.08.1-1.2
  • okular-spectre >= 21.08.1-1.2
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11110

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3 okular Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 okular Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Sep 7 00:15:10 2018
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 16:06:32 2025