CVE-2026-118598

{
  "id": "CVE-2026-118598",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-10-31T10:16:37.923",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-31T10:16:37.923",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "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.\n\nIn 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:\n\n  } else if (EPHY_PERMISSION_TYPE_ACCESS_WEBCAM_AND_MICROPHONE) {\n\nBecause 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 saw a Clipboard or Website Data Access dialog.\n\nA malicious site that obtains approval for clipboard or third-party storage access can afterwards use getUserMedia without a further camera/microphone prompt, exposing audiovisual confidentiality.\n\nRequirements: the victim must visit a malicious page and click Allow on a clipboard or website-data-access prompt.\n\nAffected: Epiphany >= 45.0 (bug present at least through 51.x).\nFixed: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/2249 (commit 480c3648).\nUpstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/work_items/2976\nReporter acknowledgment: Fernando Munoz"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "vendor": "GNOME",
          "product": "Epiphany",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "collectionURL": "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany",
          "packageName": "epiphany",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "45.0",
              "lessThan": "*",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "status": "affected"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metrics": {
    "cvssMetricV31": [
      {
        "source": "[email protected]",
        "type": "Secondary",
        "cvssData": {
          "version": "3.1",
          "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
          "baseScore": 6.5,
          "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
          "attackVector": "NETWORK",
          "attackComplexity": "LOW",
          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
          "userInteraction": "REQUIRED",
          "scope": "UNCHANGED",
          "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
          "integrityImpact": "NONE",
          "availabilityImpact": "NONE"
        },
        "exploitabilityScore": 2.8,
        "impactScore": 3.6
      }
    ]
  },
  "weaknesses": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "type": "Secondary",
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-863"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-118598",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2562956",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/2249",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/work_items/2976",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}