CVE-2018-15518
QXmlStream in Qt 5.x before 5.11.3 has a double-free or corruption during parsing of a specially crafted illegal XML document.
02 Description
QXmlStream in Qt 5.x before 5.11.3 has a double-free or corruption during parsing of a specially crafted illegal XML document.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.50% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-12-26 20:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 09:54Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-08-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b61a3330dee472206c8bd93e012412e6e25bcf6fac97d7e895fb1bdab119b99b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-4374https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4374
- codereview.qt-project.orghttps://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/236691/
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2018:4261http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-12/msg00066.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190103 [SECURITY] [DLA 1627-1] qtbase-opensource-src security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00004.html
- blog.qt.iohttps://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/12/04/qt-5-11-3-released-important-security-updates/
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190514 [SECURITY] [DLA 1786-1] qt4-x11 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00014.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4003-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4003-1/
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:2135https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2135
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:3390https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3390
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1452http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00057.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1500http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00071.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1501http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00073.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1530http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00090.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200928 [SECURITY] [DLA 2377-1] qt4-x11 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00023.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- qtbase-opensource-src Fixed in 5.11.3+dfsg-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- qtbase-opensource-src Fixed in 5.11.3+dfsg-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- qtbase-opensource-src Fixed in 5.11.3+dfsg-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- qtbase-opensource-src Fixed in 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.6
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- qtbase-opensource-src Fixed in 5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.