CVE-2024-7978

Description

From CVE.org

Insufficient policy enforcement in Data Transfer in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

Confidentiality,Integrity,Availability,Access Control

Technical Impact: Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands; Bypass Protection Mechanism; Read Application Data; Varies by Context

With an overly permissive policy file, an attacker may be able to bypass the web browser's same-origin policy and conduct many of the same attacks seen in Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79). An attacker can exploit the weakness to transfer private information from the victim's machine to the attacker, manipulate or steal cookies that may include session information, create malicious requests to a web site on behalf of the victim, or execute malicious code on the end user systems. Other damaging attacks include the disclosure of end user files, installation of Trojan horse programs, redirecting the user to some other page or site, running ActiveX controls (under Microsoft Internet Explorer) from sites that a user perceives as trustworthy, and modifying presentation of content.

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