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CVE-2019-6251WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit prior to version 2.24.1 are vulnerable to address bar spoofing upon certain JavaScript redirections. An attacker…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 4.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
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- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.3% · top 8.8% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References15
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/issues/532 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20190411 WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2019-0002 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190410 WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2019-0002 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152485/WebKitGTK-WPE-WebKit-URI-Spoofing-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-d9a15be3ba (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-b3ad0a302b (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-3948-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/243434 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-432b3dff25 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-77433fc7f3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-74f7603660 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1374 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1391 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201909-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-15818 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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