CVE-2025-14575

Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Qt Network OpenSSL TLS backend allows rogue CA certificate loading

State: Published
Severity: 1.8 Low
Published: May 19, 2026
Updated: Jul 29, 2026
Reserved: Dec 12, 2025

Description

An Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in the OpenSSL TLS backend of Qt Network (qtbase) in Qt Qt Framework (Unix) allows a local attacker to load a rogue CA certificate as a trusted system authority via a crafted certificate file placed in the application's working directory.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	1.8 Low	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	TQtC

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
QtQt	5.0.0 through 5.15.19Affected 6.0.0 through 6.5.9Affected 6.6.0 through 6.8.3Affected 6.9.0 through 6.9.1Affected

References

Gerrit: QSslCertificate::fromPath — reject empty path strings (Qt 6.9.2+)patch

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