github - ghsa-4w86-wmpg-xc6m

ghsa-4w86-wmpg-xc6m

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:48

Modified

2022-05-13 01:48

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-04-25 05:00

Modified

2024-08-05 07:39

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

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	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-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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