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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2010-5069

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Google Chrome 4 does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2010-2264.

  • MEDIUM
  • 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