CVE-2010-0643

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% 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-200

Description

Google Chrome before 4.0.249.89 attempts to make direct connections to web sites when all configured proxy servers are unavailable, which allows remote HTTP servers to obtain potentially sensitive information about the identity of a client user via standard HTTP logging, as demonstrated by a proxy server that was configured for the purpose of anonymity.

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=12303
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/62315
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38177
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0361
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56212
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14500
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12303
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/02/stable-channel-update.html

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