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🛡️ CVE-2025-55174 on Ubuntu — skanpage

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-55174 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package skanpage. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-55174 is classified as CWE-684: Incorrect Provision of Specified Functionality. The code does not function according to its published specifications, potentially leading to incorrect usage.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-55174 is recorded against 1 package.

  • skanpage

Timeline and source

Published on 26 November 2025 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
kde.org (Report)
commits.kde.org (Report)
github.com (Report)
invent.kde.org (Report)

Other advisories for this package

skanpage has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-684: Incorrect Provision of Specified Functionality) in other software:

CVE-2025-55174 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-11-26
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
skanpage — —

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