CVE-2022-23853

Summary

CVECVE-2022-23853
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-11 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-15 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe LSP (Language Server Protocol) plugin in KDE Kate before 21.12.2 and KTextEditor before 5.91.0 tries to execute the associated LSP server binary when opening a file of a given type. If this binary is absent from the PATH, it will try running the LSP server binary in the directory of the file that was just opened (due to a misunderstanding of the QProcess API, that was never intended). This can be an untrusted directory.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-427

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Kate All All All All
Application Kde Ktexteditor All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
KTextEditor: Arbitrary Local Code Execution (GLSA 202401-21) — Gentoo security security.gentoo.org
kde.org/info/security/advisory-20220131-1.txt CONFIRM kde.org
Kate - KDE Applications MISC apps.kde.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182893 Debian Security Update for ktexteditorkate (CVE-2022-23853)
  • 282348 Fedora Security Update for kate (FEDORA-2022-74707ed2dd)
  • 710838 Gentoo Linux KTextEditor Arbitrary Local Code Execution Vulnerability (GLSA 202401-21)
  • 751878 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libqt5-qtbase (SUSE-SU-2022:0841-1)
  • 751891 OpenSUSE Security Update for libqt5-qtbase (openSUSE-SU-2022:0841-1)
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