PT-2009-5577 · Google · Google Chrome

Inferno · Published 2009-09-18 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2009-3263

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions 2.x through 3.0.195.20

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an RSS or Atom feed. This is related to the rendering of the application/rss+xml content type as XML "active content."

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions 2.x through 3.0.195.20, update to version 3.0.195.21 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the rendering of RSS and Atom feeds to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3263

Affected Products

Google Chrome

References · 7

• 🔥 http://securethoughts.com/2009/09/exploiting-chrome-and-operas-inbuilt-atomrss-reader-with-script-execution-and-more · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3263 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36770 · Vendor Advisory
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/09/stable-channel-update.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/506517/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21238 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/36416 · Note