What is CVE-2015-9541?

CVE-2015-9541 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qt, classified under Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-24.

How severe is CVE-2015-9541?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

XXE in Qt

CVE-2015-9541

Qt through 5.14 allows an exponential XML entity expansion attack via a crafted SVG document that is mishandled in QXmlStreamReader, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.

EPSS: 0.025 (83.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Qt
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 31, 32
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-776 — Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9541?: CVE-2015-9541 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qt, classified under Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs (XML Entity Expansion). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-24.
How severe is CVE-2015-9541?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.