Use After Free Affecting qt/qtbase package, versions [6.9.0-beta1,6.9.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QTQTBASE-10674339
  • published10 Jul 2025
  • disclosed11 Jun 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-5991  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qt/qtbase to version 6.9.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the QHttp2ProtocolHandler function. An attacker can execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by exploiting a race condition between the HTTP body and error response handling.

Note: This is only exploitable if HTTP/2 requests are being processed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1