CVE-2014-7939

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-01-21
Bugzilla:
1185219: CVE-2014-7939 chromium-browser: same-origin-bypass in V8

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, when the Harmony proxy in Google V8 is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted JavaScript code with Proxy.create and console.log calls, related to HTTP responses that lack an "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff" header.

Find out more about CVE-2014-7939 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics 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

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) RHSA-2015:0093 2015-01-27

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