Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Okular Allows Arbitrary File Creation

CVE-2018-1000801 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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

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