A flaw was found in Epiphany. An issue in how the browser reads web addresses allows attackers to fake the domain name shown in the address bar. If a user clicks a specially crafted link containing a
A flaw was found in Epiphany. An issue in how the browser reads web addresses allows attackers to fake the domain name shown in the address bar. If a user clicks a specially crafted link containing a colon (for example, [https://trusted.com:80@attacker.com/](https://trusted.com:80@attacker.com/)), the address bar and security menus will display the safe website (trusted.com) but it will actually load the attacker website (attacker.com) on the screen. This allows attackers to create convincing p
Affected packages
- epiphany-browser
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
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- EPSS percentile
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EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18487
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18487
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2509570
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/commit/0dde1d369458ac5c44b74b5ad3c433f825f6f8af
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/work_items/2897
Structured record: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-18487
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