okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open a specially crafted Okular archive. This issue appears to have been corrected in version 18.08.1
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| kde / okular | - | 18.08.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 8.0 | 8.0.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 9.0 | 9.0.x |