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Fencer Vulns
low 2.3

CVE-2025-5992 json

Passing values outside of expected range to QColorTransferGenericFunction can cause a denial of service

published 2025-07-11 15 mo ago modified 2026-07-29 3 mo ago also EUVD-2025-21120

cvss
2.3
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 24%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

When passing values outside of the expected range to QColorTransferGenericFunction it can cause a denial of service, for example, this can happen when passing a specifically crafted ICC profile to QColorSpace::fromICCProfile.

This issue affects Qt from 6.6.0 through 6.8.3, from 6.9.0 through 6.9.1. This is fixed in 6.8.4 and 6.9.2.

Patch / fix

  • Qt Qt 6.8.4, 6.9.2
  • qt6-base Debian 14, Debian 13 6.8.2+dfsg-9

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-5992

  • qt6-base openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.9.1-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15345-1

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-2025-5992 updated cvss 3.1

qt6: Qt6 denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 qt6
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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 SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 2.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
CNA 4.0 2.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • Qt Qt

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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