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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2010-3417

Medium
5/10

Summary

Google Chrome before 6.0.472.59 does not prompt the user before granting access to the extension history, which allows attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published