CVE-2018-1000041

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

GNOME librsvg version before commit c6ddf2ed4d768fd88adbea2b63f575cd523022ea contains a Improper input validation vulnerability in rsvg-io.c that can result in the victim's Windows username and NTLM password hash being leaked to remote attackers through SMB. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must process a specially crafted SVG file containing an UNC path on Windows.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
GNOME Librsvg: before 2.41.2 — fixed in 2.41.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNOME Librsvg 2.41.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/GNOME/librsvg/commit/c6ddf2ed4d768fd88adbea2b63f575cd523022ea
https://github.com/ImageMagick/librsvg/commit/f9d69eadd2b16b00d1a1f9f286122123f8e547dd
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00013.html
https://github.com/GNOME/librsvg/commit/c6ddf2ed4d768fd88adbea2b63f575cd523022ea
https://github.com/ImageMagick/librsvg/commit/f9d69eadd2b16b00d1a1f9f286122123f8e547dd
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00013.html

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