Information disclosure in Google Chrome - CVE-2010-5069
Published: December 7, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44472
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-2010-5069
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Google Chrome 4 does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2010-2264.
How to mitigate CVE-2010-5069
Install update from vendor's website.