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SCA: security update for qutebrowser (GHSA-m4fw-77v7-924m)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422608

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - qutebrowser version introduced in v0.11.0 (1179ee7a937fb31414d77d9970bac21095358449) contains a Cross Site
 Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in history command, qute://history page that can result in Via injected
 JavaScript code, a website can steal the user's browsing history. This attack appear to be exploitable via
 the victim must open a page with a specially crafted <title> attribute, and then open the qute://history
 site via the :history command. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in fixed in v1.3.3
 (4c9360237f186681b1e3f2a0f30c45161cf405c7, to be released today) and v1.4.0
 (5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f, released later this week). (CVE-2018-1000559)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m4fw-77v7-924m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422608

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000559

cwe: CWE-79