vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-38633: Librsvg: Arbitrary File Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 22, 2023
Added
Aug 12, 2024
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

A directory traversal problem in the URL decoder of librsvg before 2.56.3 could be used by local or remote attackers to disclose files (on the local filesystem outside of the expected area), as demonstrated by href=".?../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd" in an xi:include element.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-gnome-base-librsvg
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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