CVE-2018-6790 Information disclosure in n/a
Medium 5.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-6790 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2018-6790 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Feb 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6790 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6790/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6790/index.md)
Remote attackers can discover client IP addresses via malicious URLs in notifications, affecting KDE Plasma Workspace users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-6790?
CVE-2018-6790 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Feb 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in KDE Plasma Workspace before 5.12.0. dataengines/notifications/notificationsengine.cpp allows remote attackers to discover client IP addresses via a URL in a notification, as demonstrated by the src attribute of an IMG element.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6790?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (40)
kcm_colors Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kde-settings Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:19-23.9.el7 |
kde-settings-ksplash Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:19-23.9.el7 |
kde-settings-minimal Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:19-23.9.el7 |
kde-settings-plasma Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:19-23.9.el7 |
kde-settings-pulseaudio Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:19-23.9.el7 |
kde-style-oxygen Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kde-workspace Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kde-workspace-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kde-workspace-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kde-workspace-ksplash-themes Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kde-workspace-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kdeclassic-cursor-theme Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kdelibs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 6:4.14.8-10.el7 |
kdelibs-apidocs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 6:4.14.8-10.el7 |
kdelibs-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 6:4.14.8-10.el7 |
kdelibs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 6:4.14.8-10.el7 |
kdelibs-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 6:4.14.8-10.el7 |
kdelibs-ktexteditor Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 6:4.14.8-10.el7 |
kgreeter-plugins Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
khotkeys Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
khotkeys-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kinfocenter Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kmag Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.10.5-4.el7 |
kmag-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.10.5-4.el7 |
kmenuedit Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
ksysguard Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
ksysguard-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
ksysguardd Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kwin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kwin-gles Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kwin-gles-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
kwin-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
libkworkspace Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
oxygen-cursor-themes Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
plasma-scriptengine-python Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
plasma-scriptengine-ruby Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:4.11.19-13.el7 |
qt-settings Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:19-23.9.el7 |
virtuoso-opensource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 1:6.1.6-7.el7 |
virtuoso-opensource-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 1:6.1.6-7.el7 |
Products include Kde Plasma-Workspace.
How do I fix CVE-2018-6790?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2018-6790 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6790 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6790, GHSA-q5wj-8g6x-hgg2, RHSA-2019:2141, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6790.