Bug 2499343 - CVE-2026-14738 exo: Exo: Information disclosure due to weak hash algorithm [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-14738 exo: Exo: Information disclosure due to weak hash algorithm [f...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: exo
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["d04e0cb6-e539-4d36-a084-f...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-14738
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-07-11 08:49 UTC by Ganesh
Modified: 2026-07-12 17:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-07-12 17:47:03 UTC
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Description Ganesh 2026-07-11 08:49:08 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

A security flaw has been discovered in exo-explore exo up to 1.0.71. Affected is the function _image_cache_key of the file src/exo/worker/engines/mlx/vision.py of the component Vision Feature Cache. The manipulation results in use of weak hash. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. A high complexity level is associated with this attack. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The pull request to fix this issue awaits acceptance.

Comment 1 correctmost 2026-07-11 13:54:28 UTC
This Bugzilla component is for an Xfce library: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/exo/exo/

The CVE seems to apply to a separate project: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

Comment 2 Kevin Fenzi (rh) 2026-07-12 17:47:03 UTC
Yeah, this is not that exo.


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