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CVE-2005-1920

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-07-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-281

Description

The (1) Kate and (2) Kwrite applications in KDE KDE 3.2.x through 3.4.0 do not properly set the same permissions on the backup file as were set on the original file, which could allow local users and possibly remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.1
• Kde: from 3.2 through 3.4.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112171434023679&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16099
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23099
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-21.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014512
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-804
• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-612.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427976/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14297
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9434

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