CVE-2012-2899

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.82 on iOS makes certain incorrect calls to WebView methods that trigger use of an applewebdata: URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via vectors involving the document.write method.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 21.0.1180.81; 21.0.1180.0, 21.0.1180.1, 21.0.1180.2, 21.0.1180.31, 21.0.1180.32, 21.0.1180.33 (+38)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/09/chrome-for-ios-update_24.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147625
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/09/chrome-for-ios-update_24.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147625

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