CVE-2018-6790

Publication date 7 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
kde-workspace	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
plasma-workspace	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

Changes run-time behaviour of notifications in a way that is likely to cause regression bugs.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
plasma-workspace	Upstream: ?id=5bc Upstream: ?id=816

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N