When passing values outside of the expected range to QColorTransferGenericFunction it can cause a denial of service…
Summary
Vulnerability reported (CVE-2025-5992). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.8.4 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
When passing values outside of the expected range to QColorTransferGenericFunction it can cause a denial of service, for example, this can happen when passing a specifically crafted ICC profile to QColorSpace::fromICCProfile.
This issue affects Qt from 6.6.0 through 6.8.3, from 6.9.0 through 6.9.1. This is fixed in 6.8.4 and 6.9.2.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-5992 has been found.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade the affected software to 6.8.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "CVE-2025-5992" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-5992 — CWE-20
Patched: 6.8.4 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-20) has been reported.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.8.4.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで影響コンポーネントを特定する。
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2Apply patch patch
Upgrade to 6.8.4ステージング環境で 6.8.4 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-5992 qt6-base
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-5992 qt6-base