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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2020-0570 json

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…

published 2020-09-14 6 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also EUVD-2020-2068

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • qt qt 5.9.10, 5.12.7, 5.14.0
  • qtbase-opensource-src Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.12.5+dfsg-8

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-0570

  • qt5-qtbase RHEL 8 5.12.5-6.el8
  • qt5-qtwebsockets RHEL 8 5.12.5-2.el8
  • qt5-qttools RHEL 8 5.12.5-2.el8
  • qt5-designer RHEL 8 5.12.5-2.el8
  • qt5-doctools RHEL 8 5.12.5-2.el8
  • qt5-linguist RHEL 8 5.12.5-2.el8
  • qt5-assistant RHEL 8 5.12.5-2.el8
  • qt5-qtbase-gui RHEL 8 5.12.5-6.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4690RHSA-2020:4025

  • libqt5-qtbase openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.15.2+kde222-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10975-1

  • qt5-qtwebsockets Rocky Linux 8 5.12.5-2.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2020:4690

  • qt5-qtsvg CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.12.11-3

azure linux advisories AZL-6834

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-0570 updated cvss 7.3

qt: files placed by attacker can influence the working directory and lead to malicious code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 qt5, qt5-rpm-macros, qt5-srpm-macros
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) qt5-qtbase-static 5.12.5-6.el8, qt5-qttools-static 5.12.5-2.el8, qt5-qtbase-debuginfo 5.12.5-6.el8, qt5-qttools-debuginfo 5.12.5-2.el8, qt5-designer-debuginfo 5.12.5-2.el8, qt5-doctools-debuginfo 5.12.5-2.el8, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) qt5-qtbase 5.12.5-6.el8, qt5-qttools 5.12.5-2.el8, qt5-designer 5.12.5-2.el8, qt5-doctools 5.12.5-2.el8, qt5-linguist 5.12.5-2.el8, qt5-assistant 5.12.5-2.el8, +14 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4690
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) qt5-qtbase 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-gui 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-common 5.9.7-4.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) qt5-rpm-macros 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-odbc 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-mysql 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-examples 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-postgresql 5.9.7-4.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) qt5-qtbase 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-gui 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-rpm-macros 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-odbc 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-mysql 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-common 5.9.7-4.el7, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) qt5-qtbase 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-gui 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-rpm-macros 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-odbc 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-mysql 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-common 5.9.7-4.el7, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) qt5-qtbase-examples 5.9.7-4.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) qt5-qtbase 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-gui 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-rpm-macros 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-odbc 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-mysql 5.9.7-4.el7, qt5-qtbase-common 5.9.7-4.el7, +1 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) qt5-qtbase-examples 5.9.7-4.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4025

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugreports.qt.io https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-81272 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a QT Library

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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