Spoofing attack in Google Chromium - CVE-2019-13743

Vulnerability identifier: #VU66455

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13743

CWE-ID: CWE-451

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in external protocol handling in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it and spoof web page content.

Google Chromium
Google Chrome
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Fedora
chromium-browser (Red Hat package)
chromium-browser-debuginfo (Red Hat package)
chromium
www-client/chromium
www-client/google-chrome

Update to version 79.0.3945.79.

Google Chromium - update to 79.0.3945.79
Google Chrome - update to 79.0.3945.79
chromium-browser (Red Hat package) - update to 79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10
chromium-browser-debuginfo (Red Hat package) - update to 79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10
chromium - addressed in versions 79.0.3945.79-1.fc30, 79.0.3945.79-1.fc31, 79.0.3945.88-1.fc30, 79.0.3945.117-1.fc30
www-client/chromium - update to 80.0.3987.132
www-client/google-chrome - update to 80.0.3987.132

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/754304

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
• Gentoo update for Chromium, Google Chrome
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary update for chromium-browser
• Fedora 30 update for chromium
• Fedora 31 update for chromium
• Fedora 30 update for chromium
• Fedora 30 update for chromium