Description

In KDE KCoreAddons before 6.25, KShell::quoteArgs is intended to safely quote arguments so that they can be passed to a shell command. This parsing does not adequately handle metacharacters, leading to an escape from the shell. All applications relying on this method in a security-critical path to handle user input are affected and could be exploited. In particular, because sendInput() sends a string to a terminal, a control character such as \x01 can be used during injection.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-28T00:00:00.000Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-28T13:07:56.176Z

Source :

mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-41526 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Kde
  • Kcoreaddons
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-41526.

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https://github.com/KDE/kcoreaddons/blob/50d360736c399502fedf203e95482b0d0e5a3ea2/src/lib/util/kshell.h#L168 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/KDE/kcoreaddons/blob/50d360736c399502fedf203e95482b0d0e5a3ea2/src/lib/util/kshell.h#L43-L49 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/KDE/kcoreaddons/releases/tag/v6.25.0 cve-icon cve-icon
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20260427-1.txt cve-icon cve-icon
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