Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Debian Linux and Google Chrome - CVE-2013-2876
Published: July 10, 2013 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42720
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2876
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Debian
Google
Affected software:
Debian Linux
Google Chrome
Debian Linux
Google Chrome
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-2876
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git;a=commit;h=ac41418e77bf9d82a6e7875c504fad5fd2ba1f7f
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=229504
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17350