KDE Project Security Advisory ============================= Title: kwallet-pam: Access to privileged files Risk Rating: High CVE: CVE-2018-10380 Versions: Plasma < 5.12.6 Date: 4 May 2018 Overview ======== kwallet-pam was doing file writing and permission changing as root that with correct timing and use of carefully crafted symbolic links could allow a non privileged user to become the owner of any file on the system. Workaround ========== None (other than not using kwallet-pam) Solution ======== Update to Plasma >= 5.12.6 or Plasma >= 5.13.0 Or apply the following patches: Plasma 5.12 https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/2134dec85ce19d6378d03cddfae9e5e464cb24c0 https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/01d4143fda5bddb6dca37b23304dc239a5fb38b5 Plasma 5.8 https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/99abc7fde21f40cc6da5feb6ee766cc46fcca1f8 https://commits.kde.org/kwallet-pam/802f305d81f8771c4f4a8bd7fd0e368ffc6f9b3b Credits ======= Thanks to Fabian Vogt for the report and to Albert Astals Cid for the fix.