Vulnerability CVE-2012-5624
Published: 2013-02-24

Description:
The XMLHttpRequest object in Qt before 4.8.4 enables http redirection to the file scheme, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to force the read of arbitrary local files and possibly obtain sensitive information via a file: URL to a QML application.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Ubuntu -> Ubuntu 
Digia -> QT 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,40034
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883415
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1723-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/04/8
http://secunia.com/advisories/52217
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/96311def2466dd44de64d77a1c815b22fbf68f71
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00045.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html
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