KDE Project Security Advisory ============================= Title: Plasma: Notifications can expose user IP address Risk Rating: Low CVE: CVE-2018-6790 Versions: Plasma < 5.12.0 Date: 8 February 2018
Overview ======== Plasma has support for the Desktop Nofications specification. That specification allows embedding images in notifications. Plasma was not sanitizing the HTML that forms the notification. That allowed for notifications to load a remote image leaking the user IP address. This is in turn made a bit worse by the fact that some chat software doesn't sanitize the text they send to the notification system either meaning that a third party could send a carefully crafted message to a chat room and get the IP addresses of the users in that chat room. Workaround ========== Disable notifications Solution ======== Update to Plasma >= 5.12.0 or Plasma >= 5.8.9 Or apply the following patches: Plasma 5.8: https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?h=Plasma/5.8&id=5bc696b5abcdb460c1017592e80b2d7f6ed3107c Credits ======= Thanks to David Edmundson for the fix.
