CVE-2018-10895

critical

Published 2018-10-10 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.5

Description

qutebrowser before version 1.4.1 is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery flaw that allows websites to access 'qute://*' URLs. A malicious website could exploit this to load a 'qute://settings/set' URL, which then sets 'editor.command' to a bash script, resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`1.4.1-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.4.1-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.4.1-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.4.1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.4.1-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.4.1-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	qutebrowser	`<1.4.1`	`1.4.1`
PyPI	qutebrowser	`<43e58ac865ff862c2008c510fc5f7627e10b4660\|\|<1.4.1`	`43e58ac865ff862c2008c510fc5f7627e10b4660`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.