Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,33.0.1750.154)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410287
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Feb 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Feb 2014

CVE-2013-6657  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 33.0.1750.154 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass core/html/parser/XSSAuditor.cpp in the XSS auditor in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.117, inserts the about:blank URL during certain blocking of FORM elements within HTTP requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

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