CVE-2025-55174 Other in Skanpage
An attacker can cause file corruption by overwriting files, leaving residual data from the original file, affecting KDE Skanpage users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-55174?
CVE-2025-55174 is a low-severity vulnerability in KDE Skanpage, published on 26 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In KDE Skanpage before 25.08.0, an attempt at file overwrite can result in the contents of the new file at the beginning followed by the partial contents of the old file at the end, because of use of QIODevice::ReadWrite instead of QODevice::WriteOnly.
Weakness: CWE-684
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-55174?
How do I fix CVE-2025-55174?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2025-55174 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-55174 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-55174, GHSA-2mq8-jgr8-vqp6, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-55174.