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CVE-2022-23853
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-02-11T18:15:11.850 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:30:53.293

Summary

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.

Affected products

kde — kate

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References

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