Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,40.0.2214.109)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409401
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Aug 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-3170  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 40.0.2214.109 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass extensions/common/url_pattern.cc in Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.94 does not prevent use of a '\0' character in a host name, which allows remote attackers to spoof the extension permission dialog by relying on truncation after this character.

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