CVE-2012-5656

medium

Published 2013-01-18 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

The rasterization process in Inkscape before 0.48.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files via an external entity in a SVG file, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
debian	forky	fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
debian	sid	fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0.48.3.1-1.2`
ubuntu	10.04	affected
ubuntu	11.10	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	12.10	affected
suse	11.4	affected
suse	12.1	affected
suse	12.2	affected
fedora	16	affected
fedora	17	affected
fedora	18	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
inkscape	inkscape	`{"endExcluding":"0.48.4"}`	`0.48.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-611

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.