VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6076

medium
Published 2013-03-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.4

Description

Inkscape before 0.48.4 reads .eps files from /tmp instead of the current directory, which might cause Inkspace to process unintended files, allow local users to obtain sensitive information, and possibly have other unspecified impacts.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.48.3.1-1.3
debian debianbullseyefixed0.48.3.1-1.3
debian debianforkyfixed0.48.3.1-1.3
debian debiansidfixed0.48.3.1-1.3
debian debiantrixiefixed0.48.3.1-1.3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
inkscapeinkscape{"endIncluding":"0.48.3.1"}
inkscapeinkscape0.37
inkscapeinkscape0.38.1
inkscapeinkscape0.39
inkscapeinkscape0.40
inkscapeinkscape0.41
inkscapeinkscape0.42
inkscapeinkscape0.42.2
inkscapeinkscape0.43
inkscapeinkscape0.44
inkscapeinkscape0.44.1
inkscapeinkscape0.45.1
inkscapeinkscape0.46
inkscapeinkscape0.47
inkscapeinkscape0.48
inkscapeinkscape0.48.1
inkscapeinkscape0.48.2
inkscapeinkscape0.48.3

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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