The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8180 advisory.

    WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.

    Security Fix(es):

    * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use after free may lead to Remote Code Execution (CVE-2024-40776)

    * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process     crash (CVE-2024-40789)

    * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking (CVE-2024-40780)

    * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking (CVE-2024-40779)

    * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use-after-free was addressed with improved memory management (CVE-2024-40782)

    * webkitgtk: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing (CVE-2024-40866)

    * webkitgtk: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior (CVE-2024-23271)

    * webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27820)

    * webkitgtk: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user (CVE-2024-27838)

    * webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution     (CVE-2024-27851)

    * webkitgtk: A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin (CVE-2024-44187)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 9 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2024:8180)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209157

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411052132
Version 1.1 Oct 16, 2024, 10:11 PM New Plugin Feed: 202410162211