Incorrect Provision of Specified Functionality Affecting qutebrowser package, versions <1.11.1.post1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-QUTEBROWSER-1558417
  • published11 May 2020
  • disclosed7 May 2020

Introduced: 7 May 2020

CVE-2020-11054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-684  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 qutebrowser to version 1.11.1.post1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qutebrowser package and not the qutebrowser package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

In qutebrowser versions less than 1.11.1, reloading a page with certificate errors shows a green URL. After a certificate error was overridden by the user, qutebrowser displays the URL as yellow (colors.statusbar.url.warn.fg). However, when the affected website was subsequently loaded again, the URL was mistakenly displayed as green (colors.statusbar.url.success_https). While the user already has seen a certificate error prompt at this point (or set content.ssl_strict to false, which is not recommended), this could still provide a false sense of security. This has been fixed in 1.11.1 and 1.12.0. All versions of qutebrowser are believed to be affected, though versions before v0.11.x couldn't be tested. Backported patches for older versions (greater than or equal to 1.4.0 and less than or equal to 1.10.2) are available, but no further releases are planned.

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CVSS Scores

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