Vulnerability CVE-2009-3931


Published: 2009-11-12   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in browser/download/download_exe.cc in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32 allows remote attackers to force the download of certain dangerous files via a "Content-Disposition: attachment" designation, as demonstrated by (1) .mht and (2) .mhtml files, which are automatically executed by Internet Explorer 6; (3) .svg files, which are automatically executed by Safari; (4) .xml files; (5) .htt files; (6) .xsl files; (7) .xslt files; and (8) image files that are forbidden by the victim's site policy.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Chrome remote steal files
Inferno
16.11.2009

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Google -> Chrome 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/54171
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3159
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36947
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507713
http://www.osvdb.org/59742
http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/using-blended-browser-threats-involving-chrome-to-steal-files-on-your-computer/
http://secunia.com/advisories/37273
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://codereview.chromium.org/download/issue261022_1.diff
http://codereview.chromium.org/download/issue243115_2002.diff
http://codereview.chromium.org/261022
http://codereview.chromium.org/243115
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23979

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