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CVE-2024-57966: kde ark Absolute Path Traversal

CVSS: 5.0v3.1MediumDeferred
AliasesMGASA-2025-0061openSUSE-SU-2025:0090-1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57966
Published 03-02-2025Last modified 09-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-57966 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Absolute Path Traversal vulnerability in kde ark. EPSS estimates a 0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.28%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 03-02-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 09-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

libarchiveplugin.cpp in KDE ark before 24.12.0 can extract to an absolute path from an archive.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.28%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

19%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.28% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.28%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • ark< 4:24.12.0-1 | < 4:22.12.3-1+deb12u1 | < 4:20.12.2-1+deb11u1
Kde1 product
Mageia1 product
  • ark< 23.04.3-1.1.mga9
Opensuse1 product
  • ark&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.6< 23.08.5-bp156.2.3.1
Suse1 product
  • ark&distro=SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6< 23.08.5-bp156.2.3.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • arkAll versions (No fix recorded)

6 vendors · 6 products

References

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