CVE-2013-0254: Qt

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The QSharedMemory class in Qt 5.0.0, 4.8.x before 4.8.5, 4.7.x before 4.7.6, and other versions including 4.4.0 uses weak permissions (world-readable and world-writable) for shared memory segments, which allows local users to read sensitive information or modify critical program data, as demonstrated by reading a pixmap being sent to an X server.

Affected products

• Qt Qt: version 1.41 only; version 1.42 only; version 1.43 only; version 1.44 only; version 1.45 only; version 2.0.0 only; …

Published 2013-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.