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Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Okular vulnerability (USN-4830-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183595

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4830-1 advisory.

 - 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 (CVE-2018-1000801)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4830-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183595

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4830-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2023

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000801

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libokular5core8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:okular, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:okular-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:okular-extra-backends, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:okular-mobile, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qml-module-org-kde-okular

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000801

USN: 4830-1