CVE-2023-38633

5.5 mediumEPSS 2.3%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2023-07-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:debian_linux
fedoraproject:fedora
gnome:librsvg

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/43
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/27/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/06/10
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213502
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/issues/996

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