CVE-2012-5624 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5624?

CVE-2012-5624 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 24 Feb 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5624?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Digia Qt, Qt Qt.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5624?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5624 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-5624 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5624 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xmh5-6gpf-xj49.