CVE-2012-5624

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The XMLHttpRequest object in Qt before 4.8.4 enables http redirection to the file scheme, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to force the read of arbitrary local files and possibly obtain sensitive information via a file: URL to a QML application.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
Digia Qt: through 4.8.3
Qt: 1.41, 1.42, 1.43, 1.44, 1.45, 2.0.0 (+53)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00045.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000014.html
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/96311def2466dd44de64d77a1c815b22fbf68f71
http://secunia.com/advisories/52217
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/04/8
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1723-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883415
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change%2C40034
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00045.html

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