CVE-2018-6791 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2018-6791 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Physical
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1079751 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2018:0397-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:39 2023
openSUSE-SU-2018:0398-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:39 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3	`drkonqi5 >= 5.8.7-8.1` `plasma5-workspace >= 5.8.7-8.1` `plasma5-workspace-devel >= 5.8.7-8.1` `plasma5-workspace-lang >= 5.8.7-8.1` `plasma5-workspace-libs >= 5.8.7-8.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2018-147

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 12 SP3	plasma5-workspace	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Feb 7 08:32:50 2018
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 16:01:26 2025