QID 671119

Date Published: 2021-11-29

QID 671119: EulerOS Security Update for webkitgtk4 (EulerOS-SA-2019-2197)

Webkitgtk+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine webkit to the gtk+ platform.
This package contains webkitgtk+ for gtk+ 3.
Security fix(es): webkitgtk 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.(cve-2019-6251)

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An arbitrary attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.1 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.8 severity.
    • Solution
    The Vendor has released a security update to fix the vulnerability. For more information please visit EulerOS-SA-2019-2197 for updates and patch information
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 671119

    CVE-2019-6251 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    EulerOS-SA-2019-2197 EulerOS V2.0SP5 URL Logo developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2197
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