Upstream information

CVE-2023-45139 at MITRE

Description

fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. The subsetting module has a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows an attacker to resolve arbitrary entities when a candidate font (OT-SVG fonts), which contains a SVG table, is parsed. This allows attackers to include arbitrary files from the filesystem fontTools is running on or make web requests from the host system. This vulnerability has been patched in version 4.43.0.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.5 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact None None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1218748 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • python310-FontTools >= 4.47.2-2.1
  • python311-FontTools >= 4.47.2-2.1
  • python312-FontTools >= 4.47.2-2.1
  • python39-FontTools >= 4.47.2-2.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-13686

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 python-FontTools Already fixed
openSUSE Leap 15.6 python-FontTools Already fixed

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jan 10 19:00:30 2024
CVE page last modified: Wed Jul 3 13:25:30 2024