CVE-2010-2295

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

page/EventHandler.cpp in WebCore in WebKit in Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 does not properly handle a change of the focused frame during the dispatching of keydown, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to redirect keystrokes via a crafted HTML document, aka rdar problem 7018610. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2010-1422.

Affected products

Google Chrome: before 5.0.375.70 — fixed in 5.0.375.70

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 5.0.375.70. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=15766
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/06/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40072
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/WebKit/375/WebCore/page/EventHandler.cpp?r1=48067&r2=48066
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26824
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552255
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12003
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=15766
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/06/stable-channel-update.html

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