CVE-2013-6657

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

core/html/parser/XSSAuditor.cpp in the XSS auditor in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.117, inserts the about:blank URL during certain blocking of FORM elements within HTTP requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 33.0.1750.116; 33.0.1750.0, 33.0.1750.1, 33.0.1750.2, 33.0.1750.3, 33.0.1750.4, 33.0.1750.5 (+90)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/02/stable-channel-update_20.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00006.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2883
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=331060
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=164538&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/02/stable-channel-update_20.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00006.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2883
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=331060
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=164538&view=revision

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