CVE-2018-10361 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2018-10361 Interim 1 7 2022-06-11T00:53:20Z current 2021-05-30T14:12:39Z 2022-06-11T00:53:20Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2018-10361 An issue was discovered in KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0. Insecure handling of temporary files in the KTextEditor's kauth_ktexteditor_helper service (as utilized in the Kate text editor) can allow other unprivileged users on the local system to gain root privileges. The attack occurs when one user (who has an unprivileged account but is also able to authenticate as root) writes a text file using Kate into a directory owned by a another unprivileged user. The latter unprivileged user conducts a symlink attack to achieve privilege escalation. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings openSUSE Leap 15.2 openSUSE Leap 15.3 openSUSE Leap 15.4 openSUSE Tumbleweed ktexteditor-5.70.1-lp152.1.1 ktexteditor-5.76.0-bp153.1.14 ktexteditor-5.86.0-1.3 ktexteditor-5.90.0-bp154.1.38 ktexteditor-devel-5.86.0-1.3 ktexteditor-lang-5.70.1-lp152.1.1 ktexteditor-lang-5.76.0-bp153.1.14 ktexteditor-lang-5.86.0-1.3 ktexteditor-lang-5.90.0-bp154.1.38 ktexteditor-5.70.1-lp152.1.1 as a component of openSUSE Leap 15.2 ktexteditor-lang-5.70.1-lp152.1.1 as a component of openSUSE Leap 15.2 ktexteditor-5.76.0-bp153.1.14 as a component of openSUSE Leap 15.3 ktexteditor-lang-5.76.0-bp153.1.14 as a component of openSUSE Leap 15.3 ktexteditor-5.90.0-bp154.1.38 as a component of openSUSE Leap 15.4 ktexteditor-lang-5.90.0-bp154.1.38 as a component of openSUSE Leap 15.4 ktexteditor-5.86.0-1.3 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed ktexteditor-devel-5.86.0-1.3 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed ktexteditor-lang-5.86.0-1.3 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed An issue was discovered in KTextEditor 5.34.0 through 5.45.0. Insecure handling of temporary files in the KTextEditor's kauth_ktexteditor_helper service (as utilized in the Kate text editor) can allow other unprivileged users on the local system to gain root privileges. The attack occurs when one user (who has an unprivileged account but is also able to authenticate as root) writes a text file using Kate into a directory owned by a another unprivileged user. The latter unprivileged user conducts a symlink attack to achieve privilege escalation. CVE-2018-10361 openSUSE Leap 15.2:ktexteditor-5.70.1-lp152.1.1 openSUSE Leap 15.2:ktexteditor-lang-5.70.1-lp152.1.1 openSUSE Leap 15.3:ktexteditor-5.76.0-bp153.1.14 openSUSE Leap 15.3:ktexteditor-lang-5.76.0-bp153.1.14 openSUSE Leap 15.4:ktexteditor-5.90.0-bp154.1.38 openSUSE Leap 15.4:ktexteditor-lang-5.90.0-bp154.1.38 openSUSE Tumbleweed:ktexteditor-5.86.0-1.3 openSUSE Tumbleweed:ktexteditor-devel-5.86.0-1.3 openSUSE Tumbleweed:ktexteditor-lang-5.86.0-1.3 moderate 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H