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.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-150"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/41xxx/CVE-2026-41526.json",
"cna_assigner": "mitre"
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:kde:kcoreaddons:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "6.25"
},
{
"fixed": "6.25.0"
}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"CPE_RANGE",
"REFERENCES"
]
}