Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting chromium package, versions [,99.0.4844.51)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2980397
  • published15 Aug 2022
  • disclosed15 Aug 2022
  • creditMichał Bentkowski of Securitum

Introduced: 15 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-0801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 99.0.4844.51 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to the html_tree_builder_simulator component mishandling tokenizer state switching while parsing HTML, leading to seemingly "impossible" DOM trees being created.

CVSS Scores

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