Information Exposure Affecting chromium package, versions [,53.0.2785.103)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.92% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410164
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-5172  (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. The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

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