Improper Access Control Affecting chromium package, versions [,44.0.2403.89)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.61% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410359
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 May 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 May 2015

CVE-2015-1253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 44.0.2403.89 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control core/html/parser/HTMLConstructionSite.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted JavaScript code that appends a child to a SCRIPT element, related to the insert and executeReparentTask functions.

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