Qutebrowser CSRF Vulnerability · CVE-2018-10895 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Qutebrowser CSRF Vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 10, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 31, 2023

Package

qutebrowser (pip)

Affected versions

< 1.4.1

Patched versions

1.4.1

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 10, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Aug 31, 2023

Severity

High

8.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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