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Bug 1835334 (CVE-2020-11054) - CVE-2020-11054 qutebrowser: Improper handling of certificates while visiting pages
Summary: CVE-2020-11054 qutebrowser: Improper handling of certificates while visiting ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-11054
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1835335
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-13 15:54 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2020-05-13 16:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-05-13 16:31:49 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2020-05-13 15:54:53 UTC 
In qutebrowser versions less than 1.11.1, reloading a page with certificate errors shows a green URL. After a certificate error was overridden by the user, qutebrowser displays the URL as yellow (colors.statusbar.url.warn.fg). However, when the affected website was subsequently loaded again, the URL was mistakenly displayed as green (colors.statusbar.url.success_https). While the user already has seen a certificate error prompt at this point (or set content.ssl_strict to false, which is not recommended), this could still provide a false sense of security. This has been fixed in 1.11.1 and 1.12.0. All versions of qutebrowser are believed to be affected, though versions before v0.11.x couldn't be tested. Backported patches for older versions (greater than or equal to 1.4.0 and less than or equal to 1.10.2) are available, but no further releases are planned.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420902
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/021ab572a319ca3db5907a33a59774f502b3b975
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/19f01bb42d02da539446a52a25bb0c1232b86327
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/1b7946ed14b386a24db050f2d6dba81ba6518755
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/2281a205c3e70ec20f35ec8fafecee0d5c4f3478
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/4020210b193f77cf1785b21717f6ef7c5de5f0f8
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/6821c236f9ae23adf21d46ce0d56768ac8d0c467
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/9bd1cf585fccdfe8318fff7af793730e74a04db3
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/a45ca9c788f648d10cccce2af41405bf25ee2948
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/d28ed758d077a5bf19ddac4da468f7224114df23
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/f5d801251aa5436aff44660c87d7013e29ac5864
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5403
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-4rcq-jv2f-898j
https://tracker.die-offenbachs.homelinux.org/eric/issue328
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2020-05-13 15:55:55 UTC 
Created qutebrowser tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1835335]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-05-13 16:31:49 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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