Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting wpe_webkit package, versions [,2.52.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WPEWEBKIT-17391796
  • published21 Jun 2026
  • disclosed2 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-43660  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wpe_webkit to version 2.52.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure in the Content Security Policy enforcement process. An attacker can bypass security restrictions by tricking a user into processing or loading malicious web content. This is only exploitable if the system has specific packages installed and is being used via a graphical interface to process untrusted web content, such as through GNOME. In some cases, exploitation may be possible from the local network without user interaction if certain packages are present.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by not processing or loading untrusted web content with the affected software, or by removing the dependent packages that require the vulnerable component.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1