A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit up to 2.24.0 (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component HTTP Proxy Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a data processing vulnerability (Deanonymization). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-19. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit prior to version 2.24.1 failed to properly apply configured HTTP proxy settings when downloading livestream video (HLS, DASH, or Smooth Streaming), an error resulting in deanonymization. This issue was corrected by changing the way livestreams are downloaded.

The bug was discovered 04/10/2019. The weakness was presented 04/10/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-11070 since 04/10/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 197431 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Webkit2gtk Vulnerabilities (USN-3948-1)).

Upgrading to version 2.24.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

See 129147, 131155, 132263 and 132301 for similar entries.

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• WebKitGTK
• WPE WebKit

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
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• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24

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