CVE-2025-43929 (GCVE-0-2025-43929)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-20 00:00
Modified
2025-04-21 13:49
Severity ?
4.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-346 - Origin Validation Error
Summary
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).
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kitty project kitty Version: 0   ≤
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