CVE-2025-10728 Uncontrolled recursion in Qt SVG module
An attacker can cause a stack overflow and denial of service by providing a crafted SVG file with recursive pattern elements to applications using the Qt SVG module.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-10728?
CVE-2025-10728 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Qt, published on 3 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
When the module renders a Svg file that contains a <pattern> element, it might end up rendering it recursively leading to stack overflow DoS
Weakness: CWE-674
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-10728?
Linux distribution packages (16)
qt6-qtsvg AlmaLinux:10 | All versions | 6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-devel AlmaLinux:10 | All versions | 6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-examples AlmaLinux:10 | All versions | 6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.1 | All versions | 0:6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.1 | All versions | 0:6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.1 | All versions | 0:6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.1 | All versions | 0:6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-examples Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.1 | All versions | 0:6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-tests-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.1 | All versions | 0:6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
qt6-qtsvg Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | All versions | 0:6.8.1-1.el10_0.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | All versions | 0:6.8.1-1.el10_0.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | All versions | 0:6.8.1-1.el10_0.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | All versions | 0:6.8.1-1.el10_0.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-examples Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | All versions | 0:6.8.1-1.el10_0.2 |
qt6-qtsvg-tests-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 | All versions | 0:6.8.1-1.el10_0.2 |
qt6-qtsvg Rocky Linux:10 | All versions | 0:6.9.1-2.el10_1.2 |
How do I fix CVE-2025-10728?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-10728 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-10728 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as ALSA-2025:22394, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-10728, GHSA-x6f6-j278-6544, RHSA-2025:22393, RHSA-2025:22394, RLSA-2025:22394 and 1 more.