CVE-2019-6251

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-6251
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-14 08:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:13:00 UTC
DescriptionWebKitGTK and WPE WebKit prior to version 2.24.1 are vulnerable to address bar spoofing upon certain JavaScript redirections. An attacker could cause malicious web content to be displayed as if for a trusted URI. This is similar to the CVE-2018-8383 issue in Microsoft Edge.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 28 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 28 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Application Gnome Epiphany All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.3 All All All
Application Webkitgtk Webkitgtk All All All All
Application Webkitgtk Webkitgtk All All All All
Application Wpewebkit Wpe Webkit All All All All
Application Wpewebkit Wpe Webkit All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
(CVE-2018-8383/CVE-2019-6251) Address bar spoofing (#532) · Issues · GNOME / Epiphany · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: webkit2gtk3-2.24.1-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1374-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: webkit2gtk3-2.24.1-1.fc28 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
USN-3948-1: WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: wpewebkit-2.24.1-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: webkit2gtk3-2.24.1-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
194208 – (CVE-2019-6251) [WPE][GTK] URI spoofing when JS redirects page to something that takes a long time to load MISC bugs.webkit.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: wpewebkit-2.24.1-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1391-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: wpewebkit-2.24.1-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: webkit2gtk3-2.24.1-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: webkit2gtk3-2.24.1-1.fc28 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Changeset 243434 – WebKit MISC trac.webkit.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
WebKitGTK+ / WPE WebKit URI Spoofing / Code Execution ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: webkit2gtk3-2.24.1-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: wpewebkit-2.24.1-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Bugtraq: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2019-0002 BUGTRAQ seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2019-0002 MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
WebkitGTK+: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201909-05) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296078 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 16.4.0 Missing (CPUOCT2019)
  • 377553 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for webkitgtk4 (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0147)
  • 501282 Alpine Linux Security Update for webkit2gtk
  • 505503 Alpine Linux Security Update for webkit2gtk
  • 670910 EulerOS Security Update for webkitgtk3 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1130)
  • 671110 EulerOS Security Update for webkitgtk3 (EulerOS-SA-2019-2196)
  • 671119 EulerOS Security Update for webkitgtk4 (EulerOS-SA-2019-2197)
  • 710127 Gentoo Linux WebkitGTK+ Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201909-05)
  • 940366 AlmaLinux Security Update for GNOME (ALSA-2019:3553)
  • 960235 Rocky Linux Security Update for GNOME (RLSA-2019:3553)
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