Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting evolution package, versions [,3.28.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.49% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EVOLUTION-2370009
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2018

CVE-2018-11396  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade evolution to version 3.28.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) ephy-session.c in libephymain.so in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) through 3.28.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code that triggers access to a NULL URL, as demonstrated by a crafted window.open call.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1