Vulnerability CVE-2010-1236
Published: 2010-04-01   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
The protocolIs function in platform/KURLGoogle.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r55822, as used in Google Chrome before 4.1.249.1036 and Flock Browser 3.x before 3.0.0.4112, does not properly handle whitespace at the beginning of a URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted javascript: URL, as demonstrated by a \x00javascript:alert sequence.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Google -> Chrome 
Flock -> Flock 

 References:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35948
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=41244
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14067
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/03/stable-channel-update.html
http://flock.com/security/
http://codereview.chromium.org/858001
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37383
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