CVE-2018-1000801: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Kde Okular: up to and including 18.08

Published 2018-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.