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.

We missed a few upstream releases but there's not breaking changes as far as I know. Lot of bug fixes and minor changes.

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Addresses CVE-2020-11054: 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 is now fixed.

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Qutebrowser developers report :

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
140676	Fedora 32 : qutebrowser (2020-f0812d6aad)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
136442	FreeBSD : qutebrowser -- Reloading page with certificate errors shows a green URL (452d16bb-920d-11ea-9d20-18a6f7016652)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	low

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CVE-2020-11054

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Tenable Plugins

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