Kate can overwrite files without prompting in directories it shouldn't be able to access
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kate (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The following is observed on a fresh Kubuntu 22.04.2 LTS installation. Kate can override files without prompting even if the file shouldn't be accessible to Kate if the full path to the file is given calling kate from the terminal.
For example: calling `kate /var/lib/
Furthermore, Kate shouldn't even be able to file without Root-Permissions, as the directory `/var/lib/polkit-1` has permissions 700 set.
Maybe this bug is not directly related to Kate but the PolicyKit implementation of (K)Ubuntu?