Medium severity · published Jul 22, 2023
CVE-2023-38633
A directory traversal problem in the URL decoder of librsvg before 2.56.3 could be used by local or remote attackers to disclose files (on the local filesystem outside of the…
5.5
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A directory traversal problem in the URL decoder of librsvg before 2.56.3 could be used by local or remote attackers to disclose files (on the local filesystem outside of the expected area), as demonstrated by href=".?../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd" in an xi:include element.
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)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0; 12.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
37; 38 · source: NVD
LI
Librsvg · Gnome
2.42.3 before 2.46.6; 2.48.0 before 2.48.11; 2.50.0 before 2.50.8; 2.52.0 before 2.52.10; 2.54.0 before 2.54.6; 2.55.0 before 2.55.3; +1 more · source: NVD
Affected product
DL
Debian Linux
Debian
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