CVE-2022-23853: kde kate Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-23853 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in kde kate. EPSS estimates a 0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 2Timeline
- 11-02-2022PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 03-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.89%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
59%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.89% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian2 products
- kate< 4:21.12.2-1
- ktexteditor< 5.93.0-1
Kde2 products
- kate< 21.12.2
- ktexteditor< 5.91.0
Opensuse2 products
- kate&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 21.12.2-1.1
- libqt5-qtbase&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 5.15.2+kde294-2.1
Ubuntu2 products
- kateAll versions (No fix recorded)
- ktexteditorAll versions (No fix recorded)
4 vendors · 8 products
References
10 links- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-21Vendor Advisory
