CVE-2022-23853

The LSP (Language Server Protocol) plugin in KDE Kate before 21.12.2 and KTextEditor before 5.91.0 tries to execute the associated LSP server binary when opening a file of a given type. If this binary is absent from the PATH, it will try running the LSP server binary in the directory of the file that was just opened (due to a misunderstanding of the QProcess API, that was never intended). This can be an untrusted directory.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23853.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "21.12.2"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "5.91.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "mitre"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kde/ktexteditor

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/kde/ktexteditor

Events

Introduced

Fixed

418d4f1ec5dd709af38fb9d9e247b3e1c7bc83ad

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:kde:ktexteditor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.91.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

v4.*

v4.100.0-rc1

v5.*

v5.91.0-rc1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-23853.json"