CVE-2018-1000559

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000559
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-26 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-08-31 13:19:00 UTC
Descriptionqutebrowser version introduced in v0.11.0 (1179ee7a937fb31414d77d9970bac21095358449) contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in history command, qute://history page that can result in Via injected JavaScript code, a website can steal the user's browsing history. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a page with a specially crafted <title> attribute, and then open the qute://history site via the :history command. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in fixed in v1.3.3 (4c9360237f186681b1e3f2a0f30c45161cf405c7, to be released today) and v1.4.0 (5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f, released later this week).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qutebrowser Qutebrowser All All All All
Application Qutebrowser Qutebrowser All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fix XSS issue on qute://history · qutebrowser/qutebrowser@5a7869f · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Fix XSS issue on qute://history · qutebrowser/qutebrowser@4c93602 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
History page parses and renders html tags · Issue #4011 · qutebrowser/qutebrowser · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981004 Python (pip) Security Update for qutebrowser (GHSA-m4fw-77v7-924m)

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