CVE-2018-1000801

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.8%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2018-09-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:debian_linux
kde:okular

References

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096
https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303

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