CVE-2018-10895 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/11/7 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10895 https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/43e58ac865ff862c2008c510fc5f7627e10b4660

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8