What is CVE-2022-25634?

CVE-2022-25634 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qt, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2022-25634?

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

Path Traversal in Qt

CVE-2022-25634

Qt through 5.15.8 and 6.x through 6.2.3 can load system library files from an unintended working directory.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2022-03-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/396440 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/396689 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/6.2/CVE-2022-25643-6.2.diff (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/tqtc-qtbase/+/396690 (Broken Link)
download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.15/CVE-2022-25643-5.15.diff (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-25634?: CVE-2022-25634 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qt, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2022-25634?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.