CVE-2025-24855 Affecting qt5-qtwebengine package, versions <5.15.17-r7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-QT5QTWEBENGINE-9833910
  • published27 Apr 2025
  • disclosed14 Mar 2025

Introduced: 14 Mar 2025

CVE-2025-24855  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 qt5-qtwebengine to version 5.15.17-r7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qt5-qtwebengine package and not the qt5-qtwebengine package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1