CVE-2014-1701

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2014-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The GenerateFunction function in bindings/scripts/code_generator_v8.pm in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.149, does not implement a certain cross-origin restriction for the EventTarget::dispatchEvent function, which allows remote attackers to conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via vectors involving events.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 33.0.1750.146; 33.0.1750.0, 33.0.1750.1, 33.0.1750.2, 33.0.1750.3, 33.0.1750.4, 33.0.1750.5 (+100)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/03/stable-channel-update_11.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00008.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2883
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029914
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=342618
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=166999&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/03/stable-channel-update_11.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00008.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2883
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029914

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