CVE-1999-1269: Kde Beta 3

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Screen savers in KDE beta 3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .kss.pid file.

Affected products

• Kde Kde Beta 3: version initial only

Published 1998-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.