Vulnerability · Published Jul 22, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2023-38633

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the librsvg2 package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.3% (higher than 84% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)2.3%top 16.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9librsvg22.50.7-1.el9_2.1ALSA-2023:5081
AlmaLinux:9librsvg2-devel2.50.7-1.el9_2.1ALSA-2023:5081
AlmaLinux:9librsvg2-tools2.50.7-1.el9_2.1ALSA-2023:5081
Alpine:v3.20librsvg2.56.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-38633
Alpine:v3.21librsvg2.56.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-38633
Alpine:v3.22librsvg2.56.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-38633
Alpine:v3.23librsvg2.56.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-38633
Alpine:v3.24librsvg2.56.3-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-38633
Debian:12librsvg2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1DSA-5484-1
Debian:12librsvg2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38633
Debian:13librsvg2.54.7+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38633
Debian:14librsvg2.54.7+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38633
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibrsvg2.52.5+dfsg-3ubuntu0.2UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38633
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlibrsvg2.52.5+dfsg-3ubuntu0.2USN-6266-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References