CVE-2013-2493

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: 2013-03-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The Hook_Terminate function in chrome_frame/protocol_sink_wrap.cc in the Google Chrome Frame plugin before 26.0.1410.28 for Internet Explorer does not properly handle attach tab requests, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an _blank value for the target attribute of an A element.

Affected products

Google Chrome Frame: through 26.0.1410.27; 15.0.874.121, 16.0.912.63

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/03/beta-channel-update.html
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome_frame/protocol_sink_wrap.cc?r1=185956&r2=185955&pathrev=185956
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=185956
https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/12395021
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178415
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/03/beta-channel-update.html
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome_frame/protocol_sink_wrap.cc?r1=185956&r2=185955&pathrev=185956
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=185956
https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/12395021
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178415

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