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Gnome Epiphany: vulnerabilities and CVEs
Gnome Epiphany has 15 published vulnerabilities, 2 of them in the last 12 months. 0 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.
CVEs15
Last 12 months2
Critical0
Actively exploited0
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Latest vulnerabilities
| CVE | Severity | EPSS | Active exploitation | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-18487 | Medium (5.4) | 0.34% | — | Aug 6, 2026 | A flaw was found in Epiphany. An issue in how the browser reads web addresses allows attackers to fake the domain name shown in the address bar. If a user clicks a specially crafted link containing a colon (for example,… |
| CVE-2025-3839 | High (8) | 0.40% | — | Jan 23, 2026 | A flaw was found in Epiphany, a tool that allows websites to open external URL handler applications with minimal user interaction. This design can be misused to exploit vulnerabilities within those handlers, making them… |
| CVE-2023-26081 | High (7.5) | 1.2% | — | Feb 20, 2023 | In Epiphany (aka GNOME Web) through 43.0, untrusted web content can trick users into exfiltrating passwords, because autofill occurs in sandboxed contexts. |
| CVE-2022-29536 | High (7.5) | 2.0% | — | Apr 20, 2022 | In GNOME Epiphany before 41.4 and 42.x before 42.2, an HTML document can trigger a client buffer overflow (in ephy_string_shorten in the UI process) via a long page title. The issue occurs because the number of bytes… |
| CVE-2021-45088 | Medium (6.1) | 1.4% | — | Dec 16, 2021 | XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 via an error page. |
| CVE-2021-45087 | Medium (6.1) | 1.5% | — | Dec 16, 2021 | XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 when View Source mode or Reader mode is used, as demonstrated by a a page title. |
| CVE-2021-45086 | Medium (6.1) | 1.3% | — | Dec 16, 2021 | XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 because a server's suggested_filename is used as the pdf_name value in PDF.js. |
| CVE-2021-45085 | Medium (6.1) | 1.5% | — | Dec 16, 2021 | XSS can occur in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) before 40.4 and 41.x before 41.1 via an about: page, as demonstrated by ephy-about:overview when a user visits an XSS payload page often enough to place that page on the Most… |
| CVE-2019-6251 | High (8.1) | 4.1% | — | Jan 14, 2019 | WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit prior to version 2.24.1 are vulnerable to address bar spoofing upon certain JavaScript redirections. An attacker could cause malicious web content to be displayed as if for a trusted URI. This… |
| CVE-2018-12016 | High (7.5) | 1.9% | — | Jun 7, 2018 | libephymain.so in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) through 3.28.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain window.open and document.write calls. |
| CVE-2018-11396 | High (7.5) | 1.5% | — | May 23, 2018 | ephy-session.c in libephymain.so in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) through 3.28.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code that triggers access to a NULL URL, as… |
| CVE-2017-1000025 | High (7.5) | 1.4% | — | Jul 17, 2017 | 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… |
| CVE-2010-3312 | Medium (5.8) | 1.0% | — | Oct 14, 2010 | Epiphany 2.28 and 2.29, when WebKit and LibSoup are used, unconditionally displays a closed-lock icon for any URL beginning with the https: substring, without any warning to the user, which allows man-in-the-middle… |
| CVE-2008-5985 | Medium (6.9) | 0.37% | — | Jan 28, 2009 | Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in Epiphany 2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory,… |
| CVE-2005-0238 | Medium (5) | 1.6% | — | May 2, 2005 | The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Epiphany allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using punycode encoded domain names that are decoded in URLs and SSL certificates in a way that uses homograph… |