CVE-2018-1000559

Description

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).

How to fix CVE-2018-1000559

To remediate CVE-2018-1000559, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.3.3-1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.3.3 or later
• —upgrade to 5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f or later

Is CVE-2018-1000559 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (3)

• from 0, < 1.3.3-1
• >= 0.11.0, < 1.3.3
• from 0, < 5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f, < 4c9360237f186681b1e3f2a0f30c45161cf405c7 | >= 0.11.0, < 1.3.3

CVSS scores

References (8)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-m4fw-77v7-924m
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000559
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000559
• PATCHgithub.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser