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Medium severity · published Jan 18, 2013
CVE-2012-5656
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…
5.5
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
16; 17; 18 · source: NVD
IN
Inkscape · Inkscape
before 0.48.4 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
11.4; 12.1; 12.2 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
10.04; 11.10; 12.04; 12.10 · source: NVD
Affected product
UL
Ubuntu Linux
Canonical
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5656
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5656
Patch
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/11931
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/095024.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095380.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095398.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00041.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00043.html
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