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 phishing pages to trick users into trusting a malicious site.
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Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:30:00 +0000
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| Description | 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 phishing pages to trick users into trusting a malicious site. | |
| Title | Epiphany: address bar / host spoofing via userinfo in ephy_uri_get_decoded_host() | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-451 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: fedora
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-06T16:32:39.361Z
Reserved: 2026-07-31T13:30:18.349Z
Link: CVE-2026-18487
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Updated: 2026-08-07T00:15:04Z