Description
An issue was discovered in soliduiserver/deviceserviceaction.cpp in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. When a vfat thumbdrive that contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged in and mounted through the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leading to a possibility of arbitrary command execution. An example of an offending volume label is "$(touch b)" -- this will create a file called b in the home folder.
Published: 2018-02-07
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4116-1 plasma-workspace security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18538 An issue was discovered in soliduiserver/deviceserviceaction.cpp in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. When a vfat thumbdrive that contains `` or $() in its volume label is plugged in and mounted through the device notifier, it's interpreted as a shell command, leading to a possibility of arbitrary command execution. An example of an offending volume label is "$(touch b)" -- this will create a file called b in the home folder.
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Debian Debian Linux
Kde Plasma-workspace
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:10:11.363Z

Reserved: 2018-02-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-6791

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-07T02:29:01.453

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:12.530

Link: CVE-2018-6791

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-6791 - Bugzilla

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