Skip to content

Qutebrowser CSRF Vulnerability

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

Package

pip 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

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.196%
(58th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-10895

GHSA ID

GHSA-wgmx-52ph-qqcw

Source code

Loading Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.