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CVE-2011-3056

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-03-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-346

Description

Google Chrome before 17.0.963.83 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via vectors involving a "magic iframe."

Affected products

• Apple Iphone Os: before 5.1.1 — fixed in 5.1.1
• Apple Safari: before 5.1.7 — fixed in 5.1.7
• Google Chrome: before 17.0.963.83 — fixed in 17.0.963.83
• Opensuse: 12.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apple Iphone Os 5.1.1; Apple Safari 5.1.7; Google Chrome 17.0.963.83. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117550
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/03/stable-channel-update_21.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00000.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00000.html
• http://osvdb.org/80294
• http://osvdb.org/81794
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47292
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48512
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48527
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-19.xml
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5282

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