3.7

CVE-2024-1433: kde plasma workspace Path Traversal

CVSS: 3.7v3.1LowModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-1433
Published 11-02-2024Last modified 24-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-1433 is a low (CVSS 3.7) Path Traversal vulnerability in kde plasma workspace. EPSS estimates a 0.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
15/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
3.7/10
010
Low · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.79%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 11-02-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 24-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in KDE Plasma Workspace up to 5.93.0. This affects the function EventPluginsManager::enabledPlugins of the file components/calendar/eventpluginsmanager.cpp of the component Theme File Handler. The manipulation of the argument pluginId leads to path traversal. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The patch is named 6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-253407. NOTE: This requires write access to user's home or the installation of third party global themes.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 3 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.79%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

55%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.79% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.79%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Kde2 products
  • plasma workspace5.0 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.10 | 5.11 | 5.12 | 5.13 | 5.14 | 5.15 | 5.16 | 5.17 | 5.18 | 5.19 | 5.20 | 5.21 | 5.22 | 5.23 | 5.24 | 5.25 | 5.26 | 5.27 | 5.28 | 5.29 | 5.30 | 5.31 | 5.32 | 5.33 | 5.34 | 5.35 | 5.36 | 5.37 | 5.38 | 5.39 | 5.40 | 5.41 | 5.42 | 5.43 | 5.44 | 5.45 | 5.46 | 5.47 | 5.48 | 5.49 | 5.50 | 5.51 | 5.52 | 5.53 | 5.54 | 5.55 | 5.56 | 5.57 | 5.58 | 5.59 | 5.60 | 5.61 | 5.62 | 5.63 | 5.64 | 5.65 | 5.66 | 5.67 | 5.68 | 5.69 | 5.70 | 5.71 | 5.72 | 5.73 | 5.74 | 5.75 | 5.76 | 5.77 | 5.78 | 5.79 | 5.80 | 5.81 | 5.82 | 5.83 | 5.84 | 5.85 | 5.86 | 5.87 | 5.88 | 5.89 | 5.90 | 5.91 | 5.92 | 5.93
  • plasma-workspace≤ 5.93.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • plasma-workspaceAll versions (No fix recorded)

2 vendors · 3 products

References

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