CVE-2009-3264

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The getSVGDocument method in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.21 omits an unspecified "access check," which allows remote web servers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting attacks via unknown vectors, related to a user's visit to a different web server that hosts an SVG document.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 3.0.193.2; 0.2.149.27, 0.2.149.29, 0.2.149.30, 0.2.152.1, 0.2.153.1, 0.3.154.0 (+35)

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21338
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://osvdb.org/58193
http://secunia.com/advisories/36770
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36416
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21338
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://osvdb.org/58193
http://secunia.com/advisories/36770
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36416

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