Information Exposure Affecting chromium package, versions [,54.0.2840.98)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409110
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5201  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 54.0.2840.98 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. A leak of privateClass in the extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.98 for Mac allowed a remote attacker to access privileged JavaScript code via a crafted HTML page.

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