Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Google Chrome - CVE-2010-5073
Published: December 7, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44473
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-2010-5073
CWE-ID: CWE-264
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 JavaScript implementation in Google Chrome 4 does not properly restrict the set of values contained in the object returned by the getComputedStyle method, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages by calling this method. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2010-5070.
How to mitigate CVE-2010-5073
Install update from vendor's website.