CVE-2014-2527: Kdirstat Project Kdirstat

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 2.7.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only

Published 2014-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.