CVE-2018-6791

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, its 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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.8

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.213

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
plasma-workspace security update(DSA-4116-1) plasma-workspace_5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1_i386.deb	Linux
plasma-workspace security update(DSA-4116-1) plasma-workspace_5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1_amd64.deb	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234