Information Exposure Affecting chromium package, versions [,53.0.2785.103)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.64% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410030
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-1677  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 53.0.2785.103 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure uri.js in Google V8 before 5.1.281.26, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, uses an incorrect array type, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by calling the decodeURI function and leveraging "type confusion."

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