Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-5624

Title: Digia Qt Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-5624.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Feb 24, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.87%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-5624: The XMLHttpRequest object in Qt before 4.8.4 enables http redirection to the file scheme, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to force the read of arbitrary local files and possibly obtain sensitive information via a file: URL to a QML application.

Impacted Vendors

trolltech 1

qt 1

digia 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00045.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000014.html http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/96311def2466dd44de64d77a1c815b22fbf68f71 http://secunia.com/advisories/52217 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/04/8 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1723-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883415 https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change%2C40034 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00045.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000014.html http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/96311def2466dd44de64d77a1c815b22fbf68f71 http://secunia.com/advisories/52217 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/04/8 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1723-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883415 https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change%2C40034

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-5624 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 24, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.