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high 7.8

CVE-2022-25255 json

In Qt 5.9.x through 5.15.x before 5.15.9 and 6.x before 6.2.4 on Linux and UNIX, QProcess could execute a binary from the current working d…

published 2022-02-16 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-29952

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Qt 5.9.x through 5.15.x before 5.15.9 and 6.x before 6.2.4 on Linux and UNIX, QProcess could execute a binary from the current working directory when not found in the PATH.

Patch / fix

  • qt qt 5.15.9, 6.2.4
  • qt6-base Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.2.4+dfsg-4
  • qtbase-opensource-src Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.15.2+dfsg-15
  • qtbase-opensource-src-gles Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.15.4+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-25255

  • qtbase-opensource-src Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 5.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-25255

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • qt5 RHEL 9 5.15.3-1.el9
  • qt5-rpm-macros RHEL 9 5.15.3-1.el9
  • qt5-srpm-macros RHEL 9 5.15.3-1.el9
  • qt5 RHEL 8 5.15.3-1.el8
  • qt5-rpm-macros RHEL 8 5.15.3-1.el8
  • qt5-srpm-macros RHEL 8 5.15.3-1.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:8022RHSA-2022:7482

  • libqt5-qtbase SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP2-LTSS, SLES 15 SP2-BCL +9 more 5.12.7-4.17.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:0841-1

  • libqt5-qtbase openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.15.2+kde294-4.1
  • qt6-base openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.2.3-2.1
  • qutebrowser openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.5.0-1.1
  • libqt5-qtbase openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.12.7-4.17.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11879-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11886-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11974-1openSUSE-SU-2022:0841-1

  • qt5 AlmaLinux 9 5.15.3-1.el9
  • qt5-rpm-macros AlmaLinux 9 5.15.3-1.el9
  • qt5-srpm-macros AlmaLinux 9 5.15.3-1.el9
  • qt5-rpm-macros AlmaLinux 8 5.15.3-1.el8
  • qt5-srpm-macros AlmaLinux 8 5.15.3-1.el8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2022:8022ALSA-2022:7482

  • qt5 Rocky Linux 9 5.15.3-1.el9
  • qt5 Rocky Linux 8 5.15.3-1.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2022:8022RLSA-2022:7482

  • qt5-qtbase CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.12.11-14

azure linux advisories AZL-50050

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-2022-25255 updated cvss 7.8

qt: QProcess could execute a binary from the current working directory when not found in the PATH

  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) qt5-devel 5.15.3-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:7482
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) qt5-devel 5.15.3-1.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8022
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) qt5 5.15.3-1.el8, qt5-rpm-macros 5.15.3-1.el8, qt5-srpm-macros 5.15.3-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:7482
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) qt5 5.15.3-1.el9, qt5-rpm-macros 5.15.3-1.el9, qt5-srpm-macros 5.15.3-1.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8022
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qt, qt3, qt-x11, qt-odbc, qt-demos, qt-mysql, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qt, qt3, qt-x11, qt-odbc, qt-qvfb, qt-demos, +12 more
    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

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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