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CVE-2011-2725

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2725 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in Ark 4.7.x and earlier, impacting Canonical, KDE, and openSUSE products. This flaw allows remote attackers to delete and display arbitrary files by embedding ".." sequences within a malicious zip file. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it is a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring medium attack complexity but allowing for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:ark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 4.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kde_sc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kde_sc:4.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kde_sc:4.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:kde_sc:4.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0295 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kdeutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kdeutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: kdeutils

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2725Low

kdeutils: Ark path traversal

Jul 25, 2011

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00002.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/105610/Ark-2.16-Directory-Traversal.html
Exploit
bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/351
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1276-1