CVE-2020-12267

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: April 27, 2020 at 01:31 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:51 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQt

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

setMarkdown in Qt before 5.14.2 has a use-after-free related to QTextMarkdownImporter::insertBlock.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=20450
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/291706
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-38

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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