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librsvg — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38633

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.

Products
librsvg
Affected versions
2.54.5+dfsg-1, 2.54.5+dfsg-2, 2.54.5+dfsg-3
Fixed versions
2.54.7+dfsg-1, 2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1
CVEs
CVE-2023-38633
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:25 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38633

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Jul 2023, 17:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38633

librsvg

Fixed versions: 2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1

librsvg

Fixed versions: 2.54.7+dfsg-1

librsvg

Fixed versions: 2.54.7+dfsg-1

Complete source record
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