7.5

CVE-2015-9541: fedoraproject fedora XML Entity Expansion

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesMGASA-2020-0192UBUNTU-CVE-2015-9541DEBIAN-CVE-2015-9541
Published 24-01-2020Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-9541 is a high (CVSS 7.5) XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 2.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.49%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
RHSA-2020:4690

Timeline

  1. 24-01-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.49%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.49% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.49%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu5 products
  • phantomjsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • pysideAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • pyside2All versions (No fix recorded)
  • qt4-x11All versions (No fix recorded)
  • qtbase-opensource-srcAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • qtbase-opensource-src< 5.12.5+dfsg-9
Fedoraproject1 product
Mageia1 product
  • qtbase5< 5.12.6-3.mga7
Qt1 product
  • qt≥ 5.5.0, < 5.12.8

5 vendors · 9 products

References

10 links