CVE-2016-1627

Description

The Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109 does not validate URL schemes and ensure that the remoteBase parameter is associated with a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URL, related to browser/devtools/devtools_ui_bindings.cc and WebKit/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09

https://codereview.chromium.org/1586903002

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=585517

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=571121

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035183

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83125

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3486

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0241.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00119.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00104.html

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3