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GHSA-4W86-WMPG-XC6M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:48 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:48

Details

An issue was discovered in KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0. Insecure handling of temporary files in the KTextEditor's kauth_ktexteditor_helper service (as utilized in the Kate text editor) can allow other unprivileged users on the local system to gain root privileges. The attack occurs when one user (who has an unprivileged account but is also able to authenticate as root) writes a text file using Kate into a directory owned by a another unprivileged user. The latter unprivileged user conducts a symlink attack to achieve privilege escalation.

Severity

7.8 (High)


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

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CVE-2018-10361 (GCVE-0-2018-10361)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-04-25 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 07:39

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/04/24/1	x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033055	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2018-04-24 00:00

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