Improper Data Handling Affecting chromium package, versions [,44.0.2403.89)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410914
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Mar 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-1229  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-19  (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 Data Handling net/http/proxy_client_socket.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not properly handle a 407 (aka Proxy Authentication Required) HTTP status code accompanied by a Set-Cookie header, which allows remote proxy servers to conduct cookie-injection attacks via a crafted response.

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