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CVE-2020-24742 json

An issue has been fixed in Qt versions 5.14.0 where QPluginLoader attempts to load plugins relative to the working directory, allowing atta…

published 5y ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2020-17453

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue has been fixed in Qt versions 5.14.0 where QPluginLoader attempts to load plugins relative to the working directory, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted files.

Patch / fix

  • qt qt 5.12.7
  • qtbase-opensource-src Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.12.5+dfsg-8
  • qtbase-opensource-src-gles Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.14.2+dfsg-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24742

  • qt5-qtsvg CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.12.11-3

azure linux advisories AZL-6837

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-24742 updated cvss 7.8

qt: QPluginLoader loads plugins relative to CWD which could result in arbitrary code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qt, qt-x11, qt-odbc, qt-demos, qt-mysql, qt-sqlite, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qt, qt-x11, qt-odbc, qt-qvfb, qt-demos, qt-mysql, +6 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 qt5-qtbase, qt5-qtbase-gui, qt5-qtbase-odbc, qt5-qtbase-mysql, qt5-qtbase-common, qt5-qtbase-examples, +1 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qt3, qt3-ODBC, qt3-MySQL, qt3-config, qt3-sqlite, qt3-designer, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qt3, qt3-ODBC, qt3-MySQL, qt3-config, qt3-designer, qt3-PostgreSQL Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 qt5-qtbase, qt5-qtbase-gui, qt5-qtbase-odbc, qt5-qtbase-mysql, qt5-qtbase-common, qt5-qtbase-examples, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

1.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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