CVE-2013-2900

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The FilePath::ReferencesParent function in files/file_path.cc in Google Chrome before 29.0.1547.57 on Windows does not properly handle pathname components composed entirely of . (dot) and whitespace characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted directory name.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Google Chrome: through 29.0.1547.56; 29.0.1547.0, 29.0.1547.1, 29.0.1547.2, 29.0.1547.3, 29.0.1547.4, 29.0.1547.5 (+44)

References

http://crbug.com/181617
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/08/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2741
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18381
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=200603&view=revision
http://crbug.com/181617
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/08/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2741
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18381
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=200603&view=revision

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