CVE-2025-14575

FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 19, 2026Last modified: May 19, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
The Qt Company	Qt	>= 5.0.0, <= 5.15.19, >= 6.0.0, <= 6.5.9, >= 6.6.0, <= 6.8.3, >= 6.9.0, <= 6.9.1CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

1.8LOW

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/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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Attack Requirements

PRESENT

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

VS Confidentiality

LOW

VS Integrity

LOW

VS Availability

NONE

SS Confidentiality

NONE

SS Integrity

NONE

SS Availability

NONE

Exploit Maturity

NOT_DEFINED

CvssVersion

4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.09%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

0.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0009 is in the 5th percentile among its peer group of 67 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2026-May/CVE-2025-14575Low

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

May 12, 2026

References

codereview.qt-project.org / c/qt/qtbase/+/642967