Security Features Affecting chromium package, versions [,44.0.2403.89)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409254
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Jun 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2015

CVE-2015-1266  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 44.0.2403.89 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Features content/browser/webui/content_web_ui_controller_factory.cc in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.130 does not properly consider the scheme in determining whether a URL is associated with a WebUI SiteInstance, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a similar URL, as demonstrated by use of http://gpu when there is a WebUI class for handling chrome://gpu requests.

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