GHSA-m4fw-77v7-924m
Vulnerability from github
Published
2018-09-13 15:47
Modified
2024-10-25 21:36
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Summary
Qutebrowser XSS Vulnerability
Details

qutebrowser 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).

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "PyPI",
            name: "qutebrowser",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0.11.0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "1.3.3",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2018-1000559",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-79",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2020-06-16T21:44:51Z",
      nvd_published_at: null,
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "qutebrowser version introduced in v0.11.0 ([1179ee7a937fb31414d77d9970bac21095358449](https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f)) 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](https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/4c9360237f186681b1e3f2a0f30c45161cf405c7), to be released today) and v1.4.0 ([5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f](https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f), released later this week).",
   id: "GHSA-m4fw-77v7-924m",
   modified: "2024-10-25T21:36:47Z",
   published: "2018-09-13T15:47:57Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000559",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4011",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/4c9360237f186681b1e3f2a0f30c45161cf405c7",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m4fw-77v7-924m",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/qutebrowser/PYSEC-2018-26.yaml",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
      {
         score: "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N",
         type: "CVSS_V4",
      },
   ],
   summary: "Qutebrowser XSS Vulnerability",
}


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