High
Security advisory
qutebrowser before version 1.4.1 is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery flaw that allows websites to access 'qute://*' URLs. A malicious website could exploit this to load a 'qute://settings/set' URL, which then sets 'editor.command' to a bash script, resulting in arbitrary code execution.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10895
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
qutebrowser before version 1.4.1 is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery flaw that allows websites to access 'qute://*' URLs. A malicious website could exploit this to load a 'qute://settings/set' URL, which then sets 'editor.command' to a bash script, resulting in arbitrary code execution.
osv:CVE-2018-10895
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2018-07-12T12:29:00.213+00:00"
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