Security Advisory SA37358 - Google Chrome Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Security Bypass

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Secunia Advisory SA37358

Google Chrome Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Security Bypass

Secunia Advisory

SA37358

Release Date

2009-11-13

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Automated scanning

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Software:

Google Chrome 3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-2816 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing OPTIONS requests including custom HTTP headers and can be exploited to facilitate cross-site request forgery attacks.

This is related to vulnerability #3 in:
SA37346

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 3.0.195.33.

Solution
Update to version 3.0.195.33.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Apple Security.

Original Advisory
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-update-fix-google-chrome-not.html

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