CVE-2015-9541

HIGH

Qt < 5.12.8 - XML External Entity Injection via QXmlStreamReader

Title source: llm

Description

Qt through 5.14 allows an exponential XML entity expansion attack via a crafted SVG document that is mishandled in QXmlStreamReader, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47417

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2PT6327C64Q4RBFRWUSBKCG7SVGBWU5W/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EZMMF4OEJAZRVKVXNO7IZWLEZVQGJN6G/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0251

EPSS Percentile 82.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-776

Status published

Products (3)

fedoraproject/fedora 31

fedoraproject/fedora 32

qt/qt 5.5.0 - 5.12.8

Published Jan 24, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026