Vulnerabilites related to kitty project - kitty
CVE-2025-43929 (GCVE-0-2025-43929)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-20 00:00
Modified
2025-04-21 13:49
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).
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kitty project kitty Version: 0   
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