What is CVE-2015-8079?

CVE-2015-8079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qt Qtwebkit, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-09-07.

How severe is CVE-2015-8079?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Qt Qtwebkit

CVE-2015-8079

qt5-qtwebkit before 5.4 records private browsing URLs to its favicon database, WebpageIcons.db.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2017-09-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (67.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 67.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Qt Qtwebkit

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/05/4 (mailing-list, Mailing List)
codereview.qt-project.org/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-8079?: CVE-2015-8079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qt Qtwebkit, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-09-07.
How severe is CVE-2015-8079?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.