CVE-2015-7543: Artsproject Arts

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

aRts 1.5.10 and kdelibs3 3.5.10 and earlier do not properly create temporary directories, which allows local users to hijack the IPC by pre-creating the temporary directory.

Affected products

• Artsproject Arts: version 1.5.10 only
• Kde Kdelibs: up to and including 3.5.10

Published 2017-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.