CVE-2012-5656

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Published 2013-01-18 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

The rasterization process in Inkscape before 0.48.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files via an external entity in a SVG file, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Fedora Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
18	Affected	—
17	Affected	—
16	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.2	Affected	—
12.1	Affected	—
11.4	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.10	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—
11.10	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
sid	Fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
forky	Fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
inkscape	inkscape	`{"endExcluding":"0.48.4"}`	`0.48.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-611

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.