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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : WebKitGTK vulnerabilities (USN-8237-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 313208

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8237-1 advisory.

 Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8237-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 313208

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8237-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2026

Updated: 5/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-20676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-webkit2-4.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:webkitgtk-webdriver, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:webkit2gtk-driver, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-6.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-webkit-6.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkitgtk-6.0-4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43213, CVE-2025-43214, CVE-2025-43457, CVE-2025-43511, CVE-2025-46299, CVE-2026-20608, CVE-2026-20635, CVE-2026-20636, CVE-2026-20643, CVE-2026-20644, CVE-2026-20652, CVE-2026-20664, CVE-2026-20665, CVE-2026-20676, CVE-2026-20691, CVE-2026-28857, CVE-2026-28859, CVE-2026-28861, CVE-2026-28871

USN: 8237-1