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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-6791 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the versions of kdebase-runtime as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This issue did not affect the versions of kde-runtime as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 6.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Physical |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kde-runtime | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kdebase-runtime | Not affected |
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