CVE-2020-0570

Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-09-14 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-426

Description

Uncontrolled search path in the QT Library before 5.14.0, 5.12.7 and 5.9.10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable elevation of privilege via local access.

Affected products

Qt: before 5.9.10; from 5.10.0 before 5.12.7; from 5.13.0 before 5.14.0 — fixed in 5.12.7, 5.14.0, 5.9.10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Qt 5.12.7, 5.14.0, 5.9.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-81272
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1800604
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-January/038534.html
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-81272
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1800604
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-January/038534.html

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