UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23853

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-23853

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23853.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23853

Upstream

CVE-2022-23853

Published

2022-02-11T18:15:00Z

Modified

2025-09-08T16:50:03Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - medium

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / kate

Package

Name: kate
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/kate@4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4:15.*

4:15.08.2-0ubuntu1

4:15.08.2-0ubuntu2

4:15.12.1-0ubuntu1

4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1

4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "kate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "kate5-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "kwrite"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / ktexteditor

Package

Name: ktexteditor
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ktexteditor@5.18.0-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.15.0-0ubuntu1

5.15.0-0ubuntu2

5.15.0-0ubuntu3

5.18.0-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "5.18.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.18.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-katepart"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.18.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.18.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.18.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5-libjs-underscore"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / kate

Package

Name: kate
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/kate@4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4:17.*

4:17.04.3-0ubuntu1

4:17.04.3-0ubuntu2

4:17.08.3-0ubuntu1

4:17.12.2-0ubuntu1

4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kate5-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kwrite"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / ktexteditor

Package

Name: ktexteditor
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ktexteditor@5.44.0-0ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.38.0-0ubuntu1

5.38.0-0ubuntu1.1

5.38.0-0ubuntu2

5.40.0-0ubuntu1

5.41.0-0ubuntu2

5.42.0-0ubuntu1

5.43.0-0ubuntu2

5.44.0-0ubuntu1

5.44.0-0ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "5.44.0-0ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.44.0-0ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-katepart"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.44.0-0ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.44.0-0ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.44.0-0ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5-libjs-underscore"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS / kate

Package

Name: kate
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/kate@4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4:19.*

4:19.04.3-0ubuntu2

4:19.08.2-1ubuntu1

4:19.08.3-0ubuntu1

4:19.12.0-0ubuntu1

4:19.12.0-1ubuntu1

4:19.12.1-0ubuntu1

4:19.12.2-0ubuntu1

4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kate5-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:19.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kwrite"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS / ktexteditor

Package

Name: ktexteditor
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ktexteditor@5.68.0-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.62.0-0ubuntu1

5.62.0-0ubuntu2

5.64.0-0ubuntu1

5.65.0-0ubuntu2

5.65.0-0ubuntu3

5.66.0-0ubuntu1

5.67.0-0ubuntu1

5.68.0-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "5.68.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.68.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-katepart"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.68.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.68.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.68.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.68.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5-libjs-underscore"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / kate

Package

Name: kate
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/kate@4:21.12.3-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4:21.*

4:21.08.1-1

4:21.08.2-1

4:21.08.3-0ubuntu1

4:21.11.80-0ubuntu1

4:21.11.90-0ubuntu1

4:21.11.90-0ubuntu2

4:21.12.0-0ubuntu1

4:21.12.1-0ubuntu1

4:21.12.2-0ubuntu1

4:21.12.3-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4:21.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:21.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kate5-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:21.12.3-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "kwrite"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / ktexteditor

Package

Name: ktexteditor
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ktexteditor@5.92.0-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.86.0-0ubuntu1

5.88.0-0ubuntu1

5.88.0-1ubuntu1

5.88.0-1ubuntu3

5.89.0-0ubuntu1

5.90.0-0ubuntu1

5.90.0-0ubuntu2

5.91.0-0ubuntu1

5.92.0-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "5.92.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.92.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-katepart"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.92.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.92.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.92.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / kate

Package

Name: kate
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/kate@4:23.08.5-0ubuntu3?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4:23.*

4:23.08.1-0ubuntu1

4:23.08.2-0ubuntu1

4:23.08.3-0ubuntu1

4:23.08.4-0ubuntu1

4:23.08.5-0ubuntu1

4:23.08.5-0ubuntu2

4:23.08.5-0ubuntu3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4:23.08.5-0ubuntu3",
            "binary_name": "kate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:23.08.5-0ubuntu3",
            "binary_name": "kate5-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:23.08.5-0ubuntu3",
            "binary_name": "kwrite"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / ktexteditor

Package

Name: ktexteditor
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ktexteditor@5.115.0-0ubuntu4?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.110.0-0ubuntu1

5.112.0-0ubuntu1

5.113.0-0ubuntu1

5.115.0-0ubuntu2

5.115.0-0ubuntu3

5.115.0-0ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "5.115.0-0ubuntu4",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.115.0-0ubuntu4",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-katepart"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.115.0-0ubuntu4",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.115.0-0ubuntu4",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.115.0-0ubuntu4",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:25.04 / kate

Package

Name: kate
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/kate@4:24.12.3-2ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=plucky

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4:24.*

4:24.08.1-0ubuntu1

4:24.08.2-2ubuntu1

4:24.08.3-0ubuntu1

4:24.11.80-0ubuntu1

4:24.11.90-0ubuntu1

4:24.11.90-0ubuntu2

4:24.12.0-0ubuntu1

4:24.12.1-0ubuntu1

4:24.12.1-0ubuntu2

4:24.12.2-0ubuntu1

4:24.12.3-0ubuntu1

4:24.12.3-2ubuntu1

4:24.12.3-2ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4:24.12.3-2ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "kate"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:24.12.3-2ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "kate-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4:24.12.3-2ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "kwrite"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:25.04 / ktexteditor

Package

Name: ktexteditor
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ktexteditor@5.116.0-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=plucky

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.116.0-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "5.116.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.116.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ktexteditor-katepart"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.116.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.116.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "5.116.0-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "libkf5texteditor5"
        }
    ]
}