DEBIAN-CVE-2026-115683: Race Condition

Published Oct 30, 2026
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Updated

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/-/workitems/2978 Proof of concept: https://beford.net/poc/sslpoc.html Fix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/mergerequests/2245 (register handlers on LOADCOMMITTED). 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.

Affected Software

3 affected components
debian/epiphany-browser*
debian/epiphany-browser*
debian/epiphany-browser*

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Configuration

    Register the tlsErrorPage message handlers on LOAD_COMMITTED rather than immediately before loading the TLS error page.

    Epiphany tlsErrorPage handler registration timing = LOAD_COMMITTED

Event History

Oct 30, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·02:16 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·02:16 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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