Spoofing attack in GNOME Web (Epiphany) - CVE-2019-6251

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Spoofing attack in GNOME Web (Epiphany) - CVE-2019-6251

Published: February 18, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU17739
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6251
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The weakness exists due to improper parsing of specific HTTP content. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and perform a spoofing attack.

Affected software

GNOME Web (Epiphany)
Arch Linux
Opensuse
Fedora
webkit2gtk (Alpine package)
webkit2gtk3
wpewebkit

How to mitigate CVE-2019-6251

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address the vulnerability.

webkit2gtk (Alpine package) - update to 2.24.2-r0
webkit2gtk3 - addressed in versions 2.24.1-1.fc28, 2.24.1-1.fc29, 2.24.1-1.fc30
wpewebkit - addressed in versions 2.24.1-1.fc29, 2.24.1-1.fc30

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