CVE-2019-6251

Publication date 14 January 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit prior to version 2.24.1 are vulnerable to address bar spoofing upon certain JavaScript redirections. An attacker could cause malicious web content to be displayed as if for a trusted URI. This is similar to the CVE-2018-8383 issue in Microsoft Edge.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
webkit2gtk	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 2.24.1-0ubuntu0.18.10.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.24.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3948-1
WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities
16 April 2019