CVE-2018-6791

N/A
Published: February 7, 2018 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:02 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxPlasma Workspace

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 5.12.0
Affected range stops below 5.12.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389815
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4116

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-78

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