Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,29.0.1547.57)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.49% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410891
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jul 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jul 2013

CVE-2013-2876  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 29.0.1547.57 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass browser/extensions/api/tabs/tabs_api.cc in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 does not properly enforce restrictions on the capture of screenshots by extensions, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the content of a previous page via vectors involving an interstitial page.

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