Uncontrolled recursion in Qt - CVE-2025-10728

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Uncontrolled recursion in Qt - CVE-2025-10728

Published: October 6, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU116599
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-10728
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when parsing .SVG images with "" element. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted .SVG file to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack. 


Affected software

Qt
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
qt6-qtsvg (Red Hat package)
dev-qt/qtsvg

How to mitigate CVE-2025-10728

Install updates from vendor's website.

Qt - addressed in versions 6.8.5, 6.9.3
qt6-qtsvg (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 6.8.1-1.el10_0.2, 6.9.1-2.el10_1.2
dev-qt/qtsvg - update to 6.9.3

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