CVE-2018-10361

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-10361
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-25 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-668

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Ktexteditor All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1033055 – AUDIT-TRACKER: CVE-2018-10361: ktexteditor: new DBus service MISC bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - ktexteditor / Kate local privilege escalation MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Privileged File Access from Desktop Applications MLIST www.openwall.com
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