CVE-2013-1665

Advisory

Aqtinstall 2.1.0rc2 uses 'defusedxml' instead of 'xml.etree.ElementTree' to avoid XXE attacks.
https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall/commit/745e6a25e46411ff526387615a1db51a6ba968e0

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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aqtinstall changeLog
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All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

`Unreleased`_
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Changed
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* Use SHA256 hash from trusted mirror for integrity check (493)
* Check Update.xml file with SHA256 hash (493)
* Update combinations.xml (495)
* QtDesignStudio, IFW version change
* Update fallback mirror list (485)

Fixed
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* Test: Conditionally install dependencies on Ubuntu (494)

Added
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* doc: warn about unrelated aqt package (490)
* doc: add explanation of --config flag in CLI docs (491)
* doc: note about MSYS2/Mingw64 environment

Security
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* Use secrets for secure random numbers(498)
* Use defusedxml to parse Updates.xml file to avoid attack(498)

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1665