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CVE-2026-115683EUVD-2026-113941GHSA-RGQ4-6FXX-V9RG

epiphany: TLS certificate warning bypass via race in tlsErrorPage message handler

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  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

GNOME Epiphany, the web browser, is affected. A malicious website can exploit a timing race to turn off the TLS certificate warning for another site until the browser is restarted, which could enable man-in-the-middle attacks or site spoofing.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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A race condition in Epiphany allows a malicious website to bypass the TLS/SSL certificate warning page. Epiphany registers the main-world script message handler "tlsErrorPage" so its internal TLS error page can implement "Accept Risk and Proceed". The handler was registered immediately before loading the error page, leaving a brief window where the previously loaded untrusted origin could still call window.webkit.messageHandlers.tlsErrorPage.postMessage(...). The only authorization check compares a numeric WebKit page id that increments predictably; an attacker can burst-guess ids and approve a certificate exception with no user click. If a victim visits malicious site A that redirects to site B with an invalid certificate, site A can, for a few milliseconds, disable TLS certificate error warnings for host B until Epiphany is restarted, enabling man-in-the-middle or site spoofing for that host. Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/work_items/2978 Proof of concept: https://beford.net/poc/ssl_poc.html Fix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/2245 (register handlers on LOAD_COMMITTED). No fixed release tagged yet; reporter and maintainer describe all current versions as affected. Maintainer notes the risky registration timing dates to commit 1da1caed (Epiphany 45.x era); before that the handlers were always registered and similarly reachable from web content.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • epiphany

    All versions

References 5

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