Bug 2047753 (CVE-2021-45085)

Summary:	CVE-2021-45085 epiphany: XSS in about page
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, gnome-sig, jhorak, mcatanza, mclasen, peter, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, tpopela
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	epiphany 40.4, epiphany 41.1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Description Marian Rehak 2022-01-28 13:28:43 UTC

XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 via an about: page, as demonstrated by ephy-about:overview when a user visits an XSS payload page often enough to place that page on the Most Visited list.

Reference:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/1045
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1612
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5042

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2022-01-28 13:29:00 UTC

Created epiphany tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2047754]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-01-28 14:01:04 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.