CVE-2026-8168

Uncontrolled recursion in the SVG parser and renderer of the Qt SVG module (QtSvg) in Qt Group Qt allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via stack exhaustion) via a crafted SVG file with deeply nested elements.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/730501
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/730590
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/730591
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/730892
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/731257
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/733245
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/738811
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/743488
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/748966
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtsvg/+/756512
https://wiki.qt.io/List_of_known_vulnerabilities_in_Qt_products#CVE-2026-8168:

Configurations

No configuration.

History

19 Oct 2026, 14:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-19 14:17

Updated : 2026-10-19 21:13

NVD link : CVE-2026-8168

Mitre link : CVE-2026-8168

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-8168

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion

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