CVE-2018-6791
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6791
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201802-4
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 5.12.0-1 | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4:5.12.0-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4:5.12.0-2 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4:5.12.0-2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4:5.12.0-2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4:5.12.0-2 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.