The rasterization process in Inkscape before 0.48.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files via an external entity in a SVG file, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.

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Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1712-1 Inkscape vulnerabilities
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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00052}


Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:14:16.440Z

Reserved: 2012-10-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-5656

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-01-18T11:48:40.323

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2012-5656

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2012-12-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-5656 - Bugzilla

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