FedoraOperating system · Fedoraproject
CVE-2024-36048
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedQAbstractOAuth in Qt Network Authorization in Qt before 5.15.17, 6.x before 6.2.13, 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.6, and 6.6.x through 6.7.x before 6.7.1 uses only the time to seed the PRNG, which may result in guessable values.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisA detailed technical summary for this CVE is being prepared.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
FedoraOperating system
= 39= 40< 5.15.17>= 6.0.0, < 6.2.13>= 6.3.0, < 6.5.6>= 6.6.0, < 6.7.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped5.15.176.2.136.5.6
Qt 5.15.17, Qt 6.2.13, Qt 6.5.6, or Qt 6.7.1 (depending on which major version branch is in use)
- Identify all Qt Network Authorization packages installed on the system using package manager queries (e.g., dnf list installed | grep -i qt)
- Upgrade Qt packages to the fixed versions: qt5-qtnetworkauth >= 5.15.17, or qt6-qtnetworkauth >= 6.7.1 (or 6.5.6, 6.2.13 depending on the 6.x branch in use)
- Run 'dnf update' or 'dnf upgrade' to fetch and apply the patched packages from Fedora updates
- Restart any applications that use Qt Network Authorization to ensure the updated libraries are loaded
- Verify the installed version matches the fixed release using: rpm -q qt5-qtnetworkauth or rpm -q qt6-qtnetworkauth
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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