CVE-2013-2868

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 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: 2013-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

common/extensions/sync_helper.cc in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 proceeds with sync operations for NPAPI extensions without checking for a certain plugin permission setting, which might allow remote attackers to trigger unwanted extension changes via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Google Chrome: through 28.0.1500.70; 28.0.1500.0, 28.0.1500.2, 28.0.1500.3, 28.0.1500.4, 28.0.1500.5, 28.0.1500.6 (+56)

References

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=84ece2d5af0e6f746ca63e483e2dbdbcab8b1e6c
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=252034
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17347
http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=84ece2d5af0e6f746ca63e483e2dbdbcab8b1e6c
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=252034
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17347

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