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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-09-06T18:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2018-1000801

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2019-03-20T19:55:18.303

Link: CVE-2018-1000801

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2018-1000801 - Bugzilla