CVE-2025-12385 | Improper validation of <img> tag size in Text component parser

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in The Qt Company Qt on Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android, x86, ARM, 64 bit, 32 bit allows Excessive Allocation. This issue affects users of the Text component in Qt Quick. Missing validation of the width and height in the <img> tag could cause an application to become unresponsive. This issue affects Qt: from 5.0.0 through 6.5.10, from 6.6.0 through 6.8.5, from 6.9.0 through 6.10.0.

Published: 2025-12-03 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: a59d8014-47c4-4630-ab43-e1b13cbe58e3 Source: a59d8014-47c4-4630-ab43-e1b13cbe58e3
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-12385 is rated Moderate Risk (41/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.26%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-12385

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.14% 0.26% +0.12%
2 2026-05-01 0.16% 0.14% -0.02%
3 2026-04-04 — 0.16% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-12385

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.7 4.0 HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:N)
No user interaction is required.
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:N)
No confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:N)
No integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:H)
High availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:N)
No confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:N)
No integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.
Exploit maturity (threat) (E:X)
Not defined: no reliable threat intelligence; scoring assumes the worst case (equivalent to Attacked).
Confidentiality requirement (CR:X)
Not defined: insufficient information; scoring treats this like High (worst case).
Integrity requirement (IR:X)
Not defined: insufficient information; scoring treats this like High (worst case).
Availability requirement (AR:X)
Not defined: insufficient information; scoring treats this like High (worst case).
Modified attack vector (MAV:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base Attack Vector (AV).
Modified attack complexity (MAC:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base Attack Complexity (AC).
Modified attack requirements (MAT:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base Attack Requirements (AT).
Modified privileges required (MPR:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base Privileges Required (PR).
Modified user interaction (MUI:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base User Interaction (UI).
Modified vulnerable system confidentiality impact (MVC:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base VC metric.
Modified vulnerable system integrity impact (MVI:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base VI metric.
Modified vulnerable system availability impact (MVA:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base VA metric.
Modified subsequent system confidentiality impact (MSC:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base SC metric.
Modified subsequent system integrity impact (MSI:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base SI metric.
Modified subsequent system availability impact (MSA:X)
Not defined: scoring uses the Base SA metric.
Safety (supplemental) (S:X)
Not evaluated.
Automatable (supplemental) (AU:X)
Not evaluated.
Recovery (supplemental) (R:X)
Not evaluated.
Value density (supplemental) (V:X)
Not evaluated.
Vulnerability response effort (supplemental) (RE:X)
Not evaluated.
Provider urgency (supplemental) (U:X)
Not evaluated.
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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-12385

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-12385

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-12385 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 3 source packages (qt6-declarative, qtdeclarative-opensource-src, qtdeclarative-opensource-src-gles), 14 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 12, resolved 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-12385
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-12385 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (qt6-declarative, qtdeclarative-opensource-src, qtdeclarative-opensource-src-gles), 20 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needed 14, ignored 3, released 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-12385

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-12385

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-12385

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