CVE-2010-0556

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

browser/login/login_prompt.cc in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.89 populates an authentication dialog with credentials that were stored by Password Manager for a different web site, which allows user-assisted remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information via a URL that requires authentication, as demonstrated by a URL in the SRC attribute of an IMG element.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 4.0.249.78; 0.2.149.27, 0.2.149.29, 0.2.149.30, 0.2.152.1, 0.2.153.1, 0.3.154.0 (+40)

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32718
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/02/stable-channel-update.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38545
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023583
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
http://www.osvdb.org/62319
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509543/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38177
http://www.vsecurity.com/advisory/20100215-1.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0361
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56216
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14407

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