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CVE-2010-1236

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
01/04/2010
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.1.249.1035 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.38.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.38.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.38.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.40.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.1.42.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:1.0.154.53:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:1.0.154.59:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:1.0.154.64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:1.0.154.65:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:2.0.169.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:2.0.169.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:2.0.170.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:2.0.172.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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