GNOME Web up to 3.18.10/3.20.6/3.22.5/3.23.4 Password information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in GNOME Web up to 3.18.10/3.20.6/3.22.5/3.23.4 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation results in information disclosure (Password). This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-1000025. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in GNOME Web up to 3.18.10/3.20.6/3.22.5/3.23.4. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Password). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

GNOME Web (Epiphany) 3.23 before 3.23.5, 3.22 before 3.22.6, 3.20 before 3.20.7, 3.18 before 3.18.11, and prior versions, is vulnerable to a password manager sweep attack resulting in the remote exfiltration of stored passwords for a selected set of websites.

The bug was discovered 07/08/2017. The weakness was published 07/17/2017 as Bug 752738 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.gnome.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-1000025 since 07/10/2017. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 9 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 3.18.11, 3.20.7, 3.22.6 or 3.23.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• GNOME

Name

• Web

Version

• 3.18.0
• 3.18.1
• 3.18.2
• 3.18.3
• 3.18.4
• 3.18.5
• 3.18.6
• 3.18.7
• 3.18.8
• 3.18.9
• 3.18.10
• 3.20.0
• 3.20.1
• 3.20.2
• 3.20.3
• 3.20.4
• 3.20.5
• 3.20.6
• 3.22.0
• 3.22.1
• 3.22.2
• 3.22.3
• 3.22.4
• 3.22.5
• 3.23.0
• 3.23.1
• 3.23.2
• 3.23.3
• 3.23.4

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.gnome.org/

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