qutebrowser — security advisory
qutebrowser version introduced in v0.11.0 (1179ee7a937fb31414d77d9970bac21095358449) contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in history command, qute://history page that can result in Via injected JavaScript code, a website can steal the user's browsing history. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a page with a specially crafted attribute, and then open the qute://history site via the :history command. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in fixed in v1.3.3 (4c9360237f186681b1e3f2a0f30c45161cf405c7, to be released today) and v1.4.0 (5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f, released later this week).
- Products
- qutebrowser
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.3.3-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1000559
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 01:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
qutebrowser version introduced in v0.11.0 (1179ee7a937fb31414d77d9970bac21095358449) contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in history command, qute://history page that can result in Via injected JavaScript code, a website can steal the user's browsing history. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must open a page with a specially crafted attribute, and then open the qute://history site via the :history command. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in fixed in v1.3.3 (4c9360237f186681b1e3f2a0f30c45161cf405c7, to be released today) and v1.4.0 (5a7869f2feaa346853d2a85413d6527c87ef0d9f, released later this week).
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000559
qutebrowser
Fixed versions: 1.3.3-1
qutebrowser
Fixed versions: 1.3.3-1
qutebrowser
Fixed versions: 1.3.3-1
Complete source record
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