CVE-2016-1627

Upstream information

CVE-2016-1627 at MITRE

Description

The Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109 does not validate URL schemes and ensure that the remoteBase parameter is associated with a chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URL, related to browser/devtools/devtools_ui_bindings.cc and WebKit/Source/devtools/front_end/Runtime.js.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.8
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 965999 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2016:0491-1, published Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:13:33 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2016:0518-1, published Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:11:08 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Leap 15.0	chromium >= 66.0.3359.170-lp150.1.1	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.0 GA chromium-66.0.3359.170-lp150.1.1
openSUSE Tumbleweed	chromedriver >= 55.0.2883.75-3.1 chromium >= 55.0.2883.75-3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA chromedriver-55.0.2883.75-3.1