Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,40.0.2214.109)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410415
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jan 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-9646  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 40.0.2214.109 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the GoogleChromeDistribution::DoPostUninstallOperations function in installer/util/google_chrome_distribution.cc in the uninstall-survey feature in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the %SYSTEMDRIVE% directory, as demonstrated by program.exe, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1205.

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