CVE-2001-1197: Kde Kdeutils

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

klprfax_filter in KDE2 KDEUtils allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the klprfax.filter temporary file.

Affected products

• Kde Kdeutils: version 2.2 only; version 2.2.2 only

Published 2001-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.