A logic error in Epiphany's site permission handling can cause camera and microphone access to be granted when the user only approves a different…
A logic error in Epiphany's site permission handling can cause camera and microphone access to be granted when the user only approves a different permission. In src/ephy-window.c, set_permission() stores the user's Allow/Deny choice after a WebKit permission dialog. Types CLIPBOARD and WEBSITE_DATA_ACCESS are not stored by ephy_permission_is_stored_by_permissions_manager(), so control fell into an else-if that was written as: } else if (EPHY_PERMISSION_TYPE_ACCESS_WEBCAM_AND_MICROPHONE) { Because that expression is a non-zero enum constant, the branch always ran for those types and wrote EPHY_PERMISSION_PERMIT for both ACCESS_WEBCAM and ACCESS_MICROPHONE for the site origin. The user only sa
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- GNOME
- Product
- Epiphany
- CVSS v3.1
- 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Exposure class
- Browser
- NVD status
- Received
Why it ranks 29 (Notable)
- CVSS v3.1 6.5 medium
- Product class: browser
- Widely deployed vendor product (GNOME)
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.