🛡️ CVE-2023-38633
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-22 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-22
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux — —
fedora — —
librsvg 2.56.0 2.56.3

References

Mailing List, Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/43
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/27/1
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213502
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/issues/996
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415799
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/when-url-parsers-disagree-cve-2023-38633/
Mailing List, Not Applicable, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/43
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/27/1
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213502
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/issues/996
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415799
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/when-url-parsers-disagree-cve-2023-38633/

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