fonttools — security advisory
fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. The subsetting module has a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows an attacker to resolve arbitrary entities when a candidate font (OT-SVG fonts), which contains a SVG table, is parsed. This allows attackers to include arbitrary files from the filesystem fontTools is running on or make web requests from the host system. This vulnerability has been patched in version 4.43.0.
- Products
- fonttools
- Affected versions
- 4.38.0-1
- Fixed versions
- 4.38.0-1+deb12u1, 4.46.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-45139
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. The subsetting module has a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows an attacker to resolve arbitrary entities when a candidate font (OT-SVG fonts), which contains a SVG table, is parsed. This allows attackers to include arbitrary files from the filesystem fontTools is running on or make web requests from the host system. This vulnerability has been patched in version 4.43.0.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-45139
fonttools
Fixed versions: 4.38.0-1+deb12u1
fonttools
Fixed versions: 4.46.0-1
fonttools
Fixed versions: 4.46.0-1
Complete source record
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