Use After Free Affecting webkitgtk package, versions [,2.50.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WEBKITGTK-15763358
  • published25 Mar 2026
  • disclosed18 Mar 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Mar 2026

CVE-2025-43457  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade webkitgtk to version 2.50.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the memory management process. An attacker can execute arbitrary code or cause a process crash by tricking a user into processing or loading malicious web content. This is only exploitable if the affected system is running a graphical interface and the relevant packages are installed and used to process untrusted web content, such as via GNOME.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by avoiding the processing or loading of untrusted web content with the affected software, or by removing dependent packages that require the vulnerable component, though this may impact system functionality.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1