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high 7.5

CVE-2015-7558 json

librsvg DoS via Cyclic References

published 2016-05-20 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-j984-q4qc-6qxf , EUVD-2022-4321

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

librsvg before 2.40.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, stack consumption, and application crash) via cyclic references in an SVG document.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io librsvg 2.40.12
  • librsvg Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.40.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7558

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-7558 updated cvss 4.3

librsvg2: Stack exhaustion causing DoS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 librsvg2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 librsvg2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 librsvg2, librsvg2-tools
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io librsvg
<2.40.12
2.40.12

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.