CVE-2019-6251

Epiphany vulnerability

CVSS

8.1

EPSS

4.1%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit prior to version 2.24.1 are vulnerable to address bar spoofing upon certain JavaScript redirections. An attacker could cause malicious web content to be displayed as if for a trusted URI. This is similar to the CVE-2018-8383 issue in Microsoft Edge.

Affected vendor

Gnome

Affected product

Epiphany

CVSS vector

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

Published

2019-01-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-6251

Confirm whether Gnome Epiphany is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-6251.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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Achievo vulnerability

HIGH

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Annotation Software vulnerability