Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-0254

Title: Qt Information Disclosure

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-0254.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Feb 06, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-0254: The QSharedMemory class in Qt 5.0.0, 4.8.x before 4.8.5, 4.7.x before 4.7.6, and other versions including 4.4.0 uses weak permissions (world-readable and world-writable) for shared memory segments, which allows local users to read sensitive information or modify critical program data, as demonstrated by reading a pixmap being sent to an X server.

Impacted Vendors

trolltech 1

qt 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00019.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2013-February/000023.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0669.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907425 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00019.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2013-February/000023.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0669.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907425

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-0254 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 06, 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.