CVE-2023-38633

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

2.32% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 82.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

Published

2023-07-22 00:00Z3 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-02 17:46Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2023-07-21

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

72a27253aaf970b66d2e359fcfcb48eb4404ed746bb1297bebc8d768e452227d

• gitlab.gnome.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/issues/996
• bugzilla.suse.comhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213502
• gitlab.gnome.orghttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/releases/2.56.3
• seclists.org20230724 APPLE-SA-2023-07-24-1 Safari 16.6http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/43mailing-list
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20230727 CVE-2023-38633 in librsvg: Arbitrary file read when xinclude href has special charactershttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/27/1mailing-list
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2023-fc79ee273dhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R5BCXT5GW6RCL45ZUHUZR4CJG2BAFDVC/vendor-advisory
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2023-0873c38acdhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/422NTIHIEBRASIG2DWXYBH4ADYMHY626/vendor-advisory
• www.debian.orgDSA-5484https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5484vendor-advisory
• security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230831-0011/
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20230906 Re: CVE-2023-38633 in librsvg: Arbitrary file read when xinclude href has special charactershttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/06/10mailing-list
• www.canva.devhttps://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/when-url-parsers-disagree-cve-2023-38633/
• news.ycombinator.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415799