WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2022-0006

• Date Reported: July 05, 2022

• Advisory ID: WSA-2022-0006

• CVE identifiers: CVE-2022-22662, CVE-2022-22677, CVE-2022-26710.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit.

• CVE-2022-22662
  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.36.0.
  • Credit to Prakash (@1lastBr3ath) of Threat Nix.
  • Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information. Description: A cookie management issue was addressed with improved state management.
• CVE-2022-22677
  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.36.4.
  • Credit to an anonymous researcher.
  • Impact: The video in a webRTC call may be interrupted if the audio capture gets interrupted. Description: A logic issue in the handling of concurrent media was addressed with improved state handling. NOTE: The tarballs of WebKitGTK or WPE WebKit don’t ship LibWebRTC. Also the LibWebRTC support is disabled by default. You only are affected by this vulnerability if your build enabled the USE_LIBWEBRTC CMake option and used the repository as source instead of the tarballs.
• CVE-2022-26710
  • Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.36.4.
  • Credit to Chijin Zhou of ShuiMuYuLin Ltd and Tsinghua wingtecher lab.
  • Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

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/.