PT-2013-4018 · Google · Google Chrome

Krystian Bigaj · CVE-2013-2900 · Published 2013-08-20 · Updated 2024-12-04

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 29.0.1547.57

Description The issue arises from the FilePath::ReferencesParent function in files/file path.cc, which does not properly handle pathname components composed entirely of . (dot) and whitespace characters. This allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted directory name.

Recommendations For versions prior to 29.0.1547.57, update to version 29.0.1547.57 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-2900

DSA-2741-1

MGASA-2013-0278

Affected Products

Google Chrome

References · 13

• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2741 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0278.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2900 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0278 · Vendor Advisory
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2013/08/stable-channel-update.html · Note
• http://crbug.com/181617 · Note
• https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=200603&view=revision · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18381 · Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/09/stable-channel-update.html · Note
• https://twitter.com/f1tym1/status/1864361514347438165 · Twitter Post
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11049 · Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/08/stable-channel-update.html · Note
• https://crbug.com/181617 · Note