Medium
Security advisory
XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 because a server's suggested_filename is used as the pdf_name value in PDF.js.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-45086
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 because a server's suggested_filename is used as the pdf_name value in PDF.js.
osv:CVE-2021-45086
Complete source record
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"references": [
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