WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2023-0010

• Date Reported: November 15, 2023

• Advisory ID: WSA-2023-0010

• CVE identifiers: CVE-2022-32919, CVE-2022-32933, CVE-2022-46705, CVE-2022-46725, CVE-2023-32359, CVE-2023-41983, CVE-2023-42852.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit.

• CVE-2022-32919

  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.38.4.
  • Credit to @real_as3617.
  • Impact: Visiting a website that frames malicious content may lead to UI spoofing. Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI handling.
  • WebKit Bugzilla: 247461

• CVE-2022-32933

  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.38.0.
  • Credit to Binoy Chitale, MS student, Stony Brook University, Nick Nikiforakis, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, Jason Polakis, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Mir Masood Ali, PhD student, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chris Kanich, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Mohammad Ghasemisharif, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • Impact: A website may be able to track the websites a user visited in private browsing mode. Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
  • WebKit Bugzilla: 239547

• CVE-2022-46705

  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.38.4.
  • Credit to Hyeon Park (@tree_segment) of Team ApplePIE.
  • Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing. Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
  • WebKit Bugzilla: 247287

• CVE-2022-46725

  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.38.4.
  • Credit to Hyeon Park (@tree_segment) of Team ApplePIE.
  • Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing. Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
  • WebKit Bugzilla: 247289

• CVE-2023-32359

  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.42.0.
  • Credit to Claire Houston.
  • Impact: A user’s password may be read aloud by a text-to-speech accessibility feature. Description: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information.
  • WebKit Bugzilla: 248717

• CVE-2023-41983

  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.42.2.
  • Credit to 이준성(Junsung Lee).
  • Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service. Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
  • WebKit Bugzilla: 260757

• CVE-2023-42852

  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.42.2.
  • Credit to Pedro Ribeiro (@pedrib1337) and Vitor Pedreira (@0xvhp_) of Agile Information Security.
  • Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
  • WebKit Bugzilla: 260173

We recommend updating to the latest stable versions of WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit. It is the best way to ensure that you are running safe versions of WebKit. Please check our websites for information about the latest stable releases.

Further information about WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit security advisories can be found at: https://webkitgtk.org/security.html or https://wpewebkit.org/security/.