CVE-2020-11054
Publication date 7 May 2020
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
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.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
---|---|---|
qutebrowser | 24.10 oracular |
Not affected
|
24.04 LTS noble |
Not affected
|
|
22.04 LTS jammy |
Not affected
|
|
20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
|
|
18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
|
|
16.04 LTS xenial | Not in release | |
14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 3.5 · Low |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | Low |
User interaction | Required |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | Low |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | None |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
References
Other references
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420902
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/021ab572a319ca3db5907a33a59774f502b3b975
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/19f01bb42d02da539446a52a25bb0c1232b86327
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/1b7946ed14b386a24db050f2d6dba81ba6518755
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/2281a205c3e70ec20f35ec8fafecee0d5c4f3478
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/4020210b193f77cf1785b21717f6ef7c5de5f0f8
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/6821c236f9ae23adf21d46ce0d56768ac8d0c467
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/9bd1cf585fccdfe8318fff7af793730e74a04db3
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/a45ca9c788f648d10cccce2af41405bf25ee2948
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/d28ed758d077a5bf19ddac4da468f7224114df23
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/f5d801251aa5436aff44660c87d7013e29ac5864
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5403
- https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcq-jv2f-898j
- https://tracker.die-offenbachs.homelinux.org/eric/issue328
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11054