CVE-2014-2528: Kdirstat Project Kdirstat

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

kcleanup.cpp in KDirStat 2.7.3 does not properly quote strings when deleting a directory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ' (single quote) character in the directory name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-2527.

Affected products

• Kdirstat Project Kdirstat: version 2.7.3 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only

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