MediumFix available
librsvg — security advisory
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
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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