CVE-2022-23853: Kde Kate
High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The LSP (Language Server Protocol) plugin in KDE Kate before 21.12.2 and KTextEditor before 5.91.0 tries to execute the associated LSP server binary when opening a file of a given type. If this binary is absent from the PATH, it will try running the LSP server binary in the directory of the file that was just opened (due to a misunderstanding of the QProcess API, that was never intended). This can be an untrusted directory.
Affected products
Published 2022-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.