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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2001-0610 json

kfm as included with KDE 1.x can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a symlink attack in the kfm cache directory in /t…

published 2001-07-27 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0601

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

kfm as included with KDE 1.x can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a symlink attack in the kfm cache directory in /tmp.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20781)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20781 SuSE 7.0 - KFM Insecure '.TMP' File Creation local, 2001-04-18

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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