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CVE-2023-38197 (GCVE-0-2023-38197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-13 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 17:30
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.10, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.3. There are infinite loops in recursive entity expansion.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-18 16:48 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
qt qt Affected: 0 , < 5.15.5 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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qt qt Affected: 6.3.0 , < 6.5.3 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:6.3.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
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fedoraproject fedora Affected: 38
    cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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fedoraproject fedora Affected: 37
    cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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qt qt Affected: 6.0.0 , < 6.2.10 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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