CVE-2025-43929

State: Published
Severity: 4.1 Medium
Published: Apr 20, 2025
Updated: Apr 21, 2025
Reserved: Apr 20, 2025

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).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-346 Origin Validation Error

Affected Products

Product	Versions
kittykitty project	before 0.41.0Affected

References

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/ce5cfdd9caf44c538af800a07162e1f49bd53c35
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/compare/v0.40.1...v0.41.0
https://ghostwriter.kde.org/documentation/#links
https://hitman.services/cve-2025-43929/
https://github.com/0xBenCantCode/CVE-2025-43929

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