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high 7.5

CVE-2022-25634 json

Qt through 5.15.8 and 6.x through 6.2.3 can load system library files from an unintended working directory.

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-30294

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Qt through 5.15.8 and 6.x through 6.2.3 can load system library files from an unintended working directory.

Patch / fix

  • qt5-qtsvg CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.12.11-3

azure linux advisories AZL-8871

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-2022-25634 updated cvss 3.3

qt: allows loading of system library files from an unintended working directory.

  • 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 qt5, qt5-rpm-macros, qt5-srpm-macros
    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 ICSA-23-222-04 updated cvss 7.5

​Siemens Software Center

  • Siemens Software Center <V3.0
    affected: fixed in V3.0, mitigation sw.siemens.com

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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