CVE-2007-1463

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in Inkscape before 0.45.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a URI, which is not properly handled by certain dialogs.

Affected products

Inkscape: 0.40, 0.41, 0.42, 0.42.1, 0.42.2, 0.43 (+1)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24584
http://secunia.com/advisories/24597
http://secunia.com/advisories/24615
http://secunia.com/advisories/24661
http://secunia.com/advisories/24859
http://secunia.com/advisories/25072
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=93438&release_id=495106
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-10.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:069
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_8_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/463710/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23070

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