| Name | CVE-2021-45085 |
| Description | XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 via an about: page, as demonstrated by ephy-about:overview when a user visits an XSS payload page often enough to place that page on the Most Visited list. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3074-1, DSA-5042-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| epiphany-browser (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.38.2-1+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 43.1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 47.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - epiphany-browser <ignored> (WebKit browser, not covered by security support in stretch)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1612
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/1045