Bug 1626265 (CVE-2018-1000801)

Summary:	CVE-2018-1000801 okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jgrulich, jreznik, rdieter, rschiron, than
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	okular 18.08.1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in Okular, in the way it creates temporary files when reading an Okular archive. Paths are read from content.xml and they are not properly sanitized before being used as template file names for the temporary files created when extracting the Okular archive, thus allowing a local attacker to write files outside the target temporary directory.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1626266, 1634726
Bug Blocks:	1626267

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-06 21:42:07 UTC

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 when the victim opens a specially crafted Okular archive. This
issue appears to have been corrected in version 18.08.1.


Upstream bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096

Upstream patch:
https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-06 21:42:37 UTC

Created okular tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1626266]

Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2018-10-01 12:46:27 UTC

In core/document.cpp:openDocumentArchive()/unpackDocumentArchive() there are not enough checks to prevent a maliciously crafted okular archive, with a name that traverses paths, from writing temporary files outside the target directory. The template/suffix of the temporary files names is determined from the document file name read in content.xml file, contained in the okular archive, without proper checks. This allows an attacker to set a name template/suffix with path traversals "../", thus creating temporary files anywhere the user can write to.

Comment 5 Riccardo Schirone 2018-10-01 12:59:21 UTC

Mitigation:

Check Okular archives with `unzip -l <archive-name>.okular` before opening them. Do not open them with Okular if they contain files with "../".

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:30:28 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1173 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1173

Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-31 22:33:14 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1000801