GHSA-wgmx-52ph-qqcw

Qutebrowser CSRF Vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2018-10895

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	qutebrowser	< 1.4.1	1.4.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10895 advisory
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/43e58ac865ff862c2008c510fc5f7627e10b4660 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10895 web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/qutebrowser/PYSEC-2018-27.yaml web
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser package
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/11/7 web