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CVE-2025-14575

Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Qt Network OpenSSL TLS backend allows rogue CA certificate loading

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Not listed in CISA KEV
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Fix or patch referenced
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

An Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in the OpenSSL TLS backend of Qt Network (qtbase) in Qt Qt Framework (Unix) allows a local attacker to load a rogue CA certificate as a trusted system authority via a crafted certificate file placed in the application's working directory.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • qtbase

    From 5.0.0 · through 5.15.19; From 6.0.0 · through 6.5.9; From 6.6.0 · through 6.8.3; From 6.9.0 · through 6.9.1

References 1

codereview.qt-project.org