CVE-2021-45087

Summary

CVECVE-2021-45087
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-16 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-19 09:57:00 UTC
DescriptionXSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 when View Source mode or Reader mode is used, as demonstrated by a a page title.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Application Gnome Epiphany All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5042-1 epiphany-browser DEBIAN www.debian.org
Various XSS, including via page titles in about:overview (#1612) · Issues · GNOME / Epiphany · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3074-1] epiphany-browser security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Properly encode untrusted data when injecting into trusted pages (!1045) · Merge requests · GNOME / Epiphany · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178996 Debian Security Update for epiphany-browser (DSA 5042-1)
  • 180949 Debian Security Update for epiphany-browser (DLA 3074-1)
  • 184669 Debian Security Update for epiphany-browser (CVE-2021-45087)
  • 198893 Ubuntu Security Notification for GNOME Web Vulnerabilities (USN-5561-1)
  • 502056 Alpine Linux Security Update for epiphany
  • 504711 Alpine Linux Security Update for epiphany
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