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CVE-2023-45935Qt 6 through 6.6 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the function QXcbConnection::initializeAllAtoms(). NOTE: this is…
- 4.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.24%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 85% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Qt 6 through 6.6 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the function QXcbConnection::initializeAllAtoms(). NOTE: this is disputed because it is not expected that an X application should continue to run when there is arbitrary anomalous behavior from the X server.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium4.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References3
- https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-115599 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 20240126 NULL pointer dereference in QT via the function QXcbConnection::initializeAllAtoms() (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176815/qt-6.6-6.5-6.2-Null-Pointer.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-50198 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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