VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4549

medium
Published 2013-12-23 · 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
5.0

Description

QXmlSimpleReader in Qt before 5.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

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.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed5.1.1+dfsg-6
debian debianbullseyefixed5.1.1+dfsg-6
debian debianforkyfixed5.1.1+dfsg-6
debian debiansidfixed5.1.1+dfsg-6
debian debiantrixiefixed5.1.1+dfsg-6

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
digiaqt{"endIncluding":"5.1.0"}
qtqt5.0.0
qtqt5.0.1
qtqt5.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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