PT-2013-1814 · Qt Company · Qt

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2013-02-24 · Updated 2021-06-16 · CVE-2012-5624

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qt versions prior to 4.8.4

Description The issue allows man-in-the-middle attackers to force the read of arbitrary local files and possibly obtain sensitive information via a file: URL to a QML application. This is due to the XMLHttpRequest object enabling http redirection to the file scheme.

Recommendations For Qt versions prior to 4.8.4, update to version 4.8.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5624

Affected Products

Qt

References · 11

• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1723-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52217 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00045.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5624 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000014.html · Note
• http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/96311def2466dd44de64d77a1c815b22fbf68f71 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883415 · Note
• https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change%2C40034 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/04/8 · Note