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 too intrusive
	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

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

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N