CVE-2018-10895
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.17%Qutebrowser CSRF Vulnerability
Published: 10/10/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10895
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/qutebrowserfrom 0, < 1.4.1-1
- PyPI/qutebrowserfrom 0, < 1.4.1
- PyPI/qutebrowserfrom 0, < 43e58ac865ff862c2008c510fc5f7627e10b4660 | from 0, < 1.4.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wgmx-52ph-qqcw
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10895
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10895
- PATCHhttps://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10895
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/qutebrowser/PYSEC-2018-27.yaml
- WEBhttps://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/43e58ac865ff862c2008c510fc5f7627e10b4660
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/11/7