CVE-2022-25255

medium

Published 2022-11-15 · Modified 2022-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

In Qt 5.9.x through 5.15.x before 5.15.9 and 6.x before 6.2.4 on Linux and UNIX, QProcess could execute a binary from the current working directory when not found in the PATH.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`qt5-5.15.3-1.el9.noarch.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.2.4+dfsg-4`
sid	Fixed	`6.2.4+dfsg-4`
forky	Fixed	`6.2.4+dfsg-4`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.15.2+dfsg-9+deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.2.4+dfsg-4`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

References

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

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