CVE-2020-0570

Publication date 5 February 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.3 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Uncontrolled search path in the QT Library before 5.14.0, 5.12.7 and 5.9.10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable elevation of privilege via local access.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qtbase-opensource-src 19.10 eoan
Fixed 5.12.4+dfsg-4ubuntu1.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

Only affects 5.12.0 through 5.14.0

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
qtbase-opensource-src

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.3 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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