Bug 2263806 (CVE-2024-1433)

Summary:	CVE-2024-1433 KDE-Plasma-Workspace: path traversal vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Doc Text:	A path traversal vulnerability was found in the KDE Plasma Workspace. This affects the function EventPluginsManager::enabledPlugins of the file components/calendar/eventpluginsmanager.cpp of the component Theme File Handler. The manipulation of the argument pluginId leads to path traversal. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2263807, 2263808
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2024-02-12 04:16:55 UTC

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in KDE Plasma Workspace up to 5.93.0. This affects the function EventPluginsManager::enabledPlugins of the file components/calendar/eventpluginsmanager.cpp of the component Theme File Handler. The manipulation of the argument pluginId leads to path traversal. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The patch is named 6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-253407. NOTE: This requires write access to user's home or the installation of third party global themes.

https://github.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/commit/6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.253407
https://vuldb.com/?id.253407

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-02-12 04:17:46 UTC

Created plasma-workspace tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2263807]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2263808]