Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data Affecting chromium package, versions [,57.0.2987.75][57.0.2987.75,57.0.2987.132)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410246
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-5042  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-311  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 57.0.2987.132 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. Cast in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android sent cookies to sites discovered via SSDP, which allowed an attacker on the local network segment to initiate connections to arbitrary URLs and observe any plaintext cookies sent.

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