CVE-2023-38633: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A directory traversal problem in the URL decoder of librsvg before 2.56.3 could be used by local or remote attackers to disclose files (on the local filesystem outside of the expected area), as demonstrated by href=".?../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd" in an xi:include element.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only
• Gnome Librsvg: from 2.42.3, before 2.46.6 (fixed in 2.46.6); from 2.48.0, before 2.48.11 (fixed in 2.48.11); from 2.50.0, before 2.50.8 (fixed in 2.50.8); from 2.52.0, before 2.52.10 (fixed in 2.52.10); from 2.54.0, before 2.54.6 (fixed in 2.54.6); from 2.55.0, before 2.55.3 (fixed in 2.55.3); …

Published 2023-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.