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CVE-2014-2527

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

kcleanup.cpp in KDirStat 2.7.0 does not properly quote strings when deleting a directory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a " (double quote) character in the directory name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-2528.

Affected products

• Kdirstat Project Kdirstat: 2.7.0
• Opensuse: 13.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00015.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/17/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/18/2
• https://bitbucket.org/jeromerobert/k4dirstat/commits/1ad2e96d73fa06cd9be0f3749b337c03575016aa#chg-src/kcleanup.cpp
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741659
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077059
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00015.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/17/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/18/2
• https://bitbucket.org/jeromerobert/k4dirstat/commits/1ad2e96d73fa06cd9be0f3749b337c03575016aa#chg-src/kcleanup.cpp
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741659
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077059

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