CVE-2024-1433

KDE Plasma Workspace Theme File eventpluginsmanager.cpp enabledPlugins path traversal

State: Published
Severity: 3.1 Low
Published: Feb 11, 2024
Updated: Apr 24, 2025
Reserved: Feb 11, 2024

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in KDE Plasma Workspace up to 5.93.0. This affects the function EventPluginsManager::enabledPlugins of the file components/calendar/eventpluginsmanager.cpp of the component Theme File Handler. The manipulation of the argument pluginId leads to path traversal. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The patch is named 6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-253407. NOTE: This requires write access to user's home or the installation of third party global themes.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.1 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	VulDB
3.0	3.1 Low	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	VulDB
2.0	2.6 Low	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Plasma WorkspaceKDE	5.0Affected 5.1Affected 5.2Affected 5.3Affected 5.4Affected 5.5Affected 5.6Affected 5.7Affected 5.8Affected 5.9Affected 5.10Affected 5.11Affected 5.12Affected 5.13Affected 5.14Affected 5.15Affected 5.16Affected 5.17Affected 5.18Affected 5.19Affected 5.20Affected 5.21Affected 5.22Affected 5.23Affected 5.24Affected and 69 more versions

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.253407vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.253407signaturepermissions-required
https://github.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/commit/6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01patch

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