Improper Authentication in Opensuse and Debian Linux - CVE-2013-6643
Published: January 16, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42147
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6643
CWE-ID: CWE-287
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Debian
Debian
Affected software:
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The OneClickSigninBubbleView::WindowClosing function in browser/ui/views/sync/one_click_signin_bubble_view.cc in Google Chrome before 32.0.1700.76 on Windows and before 32.0.1700.77 on Mac OS X and Linux allows attackers to trigger a sync with an arbitrary Google account by leveraging improper handling of the closing of an untrusted signin confirm dialog.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6643
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/01/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00008.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2862
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=321940
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=237115&view=revision