ubuntu-cve-2018-10380
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-05-08 12:29
Modified
2025-10-24 04:47
Summary
Details

kwallet-pam in KDE KWallet before 5.12.6 allows local users to obtain ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libpam-kwallet4",
            "binary_version": "4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpam-kwallet5",
            "binary_version": "4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1.3"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "kwallet-pam",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/kwallet-pam@4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1.3?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "4:5.4.2-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.4.3-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.5.4-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1.1",
        "4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1.2",
        "4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1.3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libpam-kwallet-common",
            "binary_version": "4:5.12.8-0ubuntu0.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpam-kwallet4",
            "binary_version": "4:5.12.8-0ubuntu0.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpam-kwallet5",
            "binary_version": "4:5.12.8-0ubuntu0.1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "kwallet-pam",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/kwallet-pam@4:5.12.8-0ubuntu0.1?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "4:5.10.5-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.11.3-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.11.4-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.11.5-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.12.0-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.12.1-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.12.2-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.12.3-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.12.4-0ubuntu1",
        "4:5.12.4-0ubuntu1.1",
        "4:5.12.4-0ubuntu1.2",
        "4:5.12.4-0ubuntu1.3",
        "4:5.12.7-0ubuntu0.1",
        "4:5.12.8-0ubuntu0.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "kwallet-pam in KDE KWallet before 5.12.6 allows local users to obtain ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10380",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:47:00Z",
  "published": "2018-05-08T12:29:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10380"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20180503-1.txt"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/2134dec85ce19d6378d03cddfae9e5e464cb24c0"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/01d4143fda5bddb6dca37b23304dc239a5fb38b5"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/99abc7fde21f40cc6da5feb6ee766cc46fcca1f8"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/802f305d81f8771c4f4a8bd7fd0e368ffc6f9b3b"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10380"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2018-10380"
  ]
}



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