VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-1000801

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.85%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.85%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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

CVSS 3.0: 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS: 1.85% probability · 79th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-22
Affected: kde/okular · debian/debian linux
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 1.8% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.