CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-43929
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-04-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-346
Description
open_actions.py in kitty before 0.41.0 does not ask for user confirmation before running a local executable file that may have been linked from an untrusted document (e.g., a document opened in KDE ghostwriter).
Affected configurations
• kovidgoyal kitty (< 0.41.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-346 Origin Validation Error weakness
References
- https://ghostwriter.kde.org/documentation/#links Product
- https://github.com/0xBenCantCode/CVE-2025-43929 Exploit
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/ce5cfdd9caf44c538af800a07162e1f49bd53c35 Patch
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/compare/v0.40.1...v0.41.0 Patch
- https://hitman.services/cve-2025-43929/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory