CVE-2024-1433KDE Plasma Workspace Theme File eventpluginsmanager.cpp enabledPlugins path traversal
- 3.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.79%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 43% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
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By VulDB
Published
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | Low2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.79% · top 43% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.1.
Affected products
- affected 5.0
- affected 5.1
- affected 5.2
- affected 5.3
- affected 5.4
- affected 5.5
- affected 5.6
- affected 5.7
- affected 5.8
- affected 5.9
- affected 5.10
- affected 5.11
- affected 5.12
- affected 5.13
- affected 5.14
- affected 5.15
- affected 5.16
- affected 5.17
- affected 5.18
- affected 5.19
- affected 5.20
- affected 5.21
- affected 5.22
- affected 5.23
- affected 5.24
- affected 5.25
- affected 5.26
- affected 5.27
- affected 5.28
- affected 5.29
- affected 5.30
- affected 5.31
- affected 5.32
- affected 5.33
- affected 5.34
- affected 5.35
- affected 5.36
- affected 5.37
- affected 5.38
- affected 5.39
- and 54 more
References
References3
- https://vuldb.com/?id.253407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.253407 (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-requiredx_transferred
- https://github.com/KDE/plasma-workspace/commit/6cdf42916369ebf4ad5bd876c4dfa0170d7b2f01 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-17187 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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