PT-2013-3989 · Google · Google Chrome

Published 2013-07-10 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2013-2868

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 28.0.1500.71

Description The issue is related to the handling of NPAPI extensions in Google Chrome. Specifically, the common/extensions/sync helper.cc component proceeds with sync operations without properly checking for a certain plugin permission setting. This could potentially allow remote attackers to trigger unwanted extension changes.

Recommendations For versions prior to 28.0.1500.71, update to version 28.0.1500.71 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-2868

DSA-2724-1

MGASA-2013-0234

Affected Products

Google Chrome

References · 9

• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0234.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0234 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2868 · Security Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html · Note
• http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=84ece2d5af0e6f746ca63e483e2dbdbcab8b1e6c · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10804 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17347 · Note
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=252034 · Note