Information Exposure Affecting chromium package, versions [,56.0.2924.67)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409039
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5011  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 56.0.2924.67 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Windows insufficiently sanitized DevTools URLs, which allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read filesystem contents via a crafted HTML page.

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