CVE-2023-38633

librsvg: Arbitrary file read when xinclude href has special characters

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · July 22, 2023

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in the URL decoder of Librsvg. This issue occurs when xinclude href has special characters; demonstrated by href=".?../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd" in an xi:include element, which can allow an attacker to send a specially crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system, affecting the data confidentiality.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')