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Fencer Vulns
low 3.3

CVE-2021-42702 json

Inkscape Access of Uninitialized Pointer

published 2022-05-18 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-29662

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Inkscape version 0.91 can access an uninitialized pointer, which may allow an attacker to have access to unauthorized information.

Patch / fix

  • inkscape Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-42702

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-2021-42702 updated cvss 7.7

inkscape: Inkscape can access an uninitialized pointer that allowes to unauthorized information.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 inkscape, inkscape-view Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 inkscape, inkscape-view
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 inkscape, inkscape-view Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 inkscape, inkscape-view
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-22-132-03 updated cvss 3.3

Inkscape in Industrial Products

  • Inkscape 0.91
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation “Ecava IntegraXor” inkscape.org

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • integraxor.com https://www.integraxor.com/scada-animation-graphic-editor-extension-inkscape/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Inkscape Inkscape

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.