Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,44.0.2403.89)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410757
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Mar 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Mar 2015

CVE-2011-5319  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (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 Access Restriction Bypass content/renderer/device_sensors/device_motion_event_pump.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not properly restrict access to high-rate accelerometer data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture keystrokes via a crafted web site that listens for ondevicemotion events, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1231.

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