*** This bug is a security vulnerability ***

Public security bug reported:

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4060

Due to a CSRF vulnerability affecting the qute://settings page, it was
possible for websites to modify qutebrowser settings. Via settings like
editor.command, this possibly allowed websites to execute arbitrary code.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-10895.

** Affects: qutebrowser (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: qutebrowser (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: community-security

** Also affects: qutebrowser (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: qutebrowser (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: qutebrowser (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)

** Changed in: qutebrowser (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: qutebrowser (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: qutebrowser (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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