okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open a specially crafted Okular archive. This issue appears to have been corrected in version 18.08.1

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1516-1 okular security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4303-1 okular security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-2005 okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open a specially crafted Okular archive. This issue appears to have been corrected in version 18.08.1
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4830-1 Okular vulnerability
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Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.04052}

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{'score': 0.02365}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T12:40:47.881Z

Reserved: 2018-09-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-1000801

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-06T18:29:00.397

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:40:23.000

Link: CVE-2018-1000801

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-1000801 - Bugzilla

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