CVE-2025-43929

🔶 medium

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).

CVSS Score

4.1

Medium

EPSS Score

0.0

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2025-04-20

First Seen: 2026-01-05

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 5.2% of all 329,456 vulnerabilities in our database.

#312,168

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Apr 21, 2025

🔍 Exploitation Status

Poc

Proof-of-concept available

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2025-04-24

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-346

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
kovidgoyal	kitty	Affected	< 0.41.0

🔗 References 5

https://ghostwriter.kde.org/documentation/#links

Product

https://github.com/0xBenCantCode/CVE-2025-43929

Exploit

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/ce5cfdd9c...

Patch

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/compare/v0.40.1....

Patch

https://hitman.services/cve-2025-43929/

Exploit Third Party Advisory

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