Improper Input Validation Affecting qt package, versions [,5.0.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.52% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QT-2368813
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-4549  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for qt.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. QXmlSimpleReader in Qt before 5.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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