CVE-2014-3159

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-07-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The WebContentsDelegateAndroid::OpenURLFromTab function in components/web_contents_delegate_android/web_contents_delegate_android.cc in Google Chrome before 36.0.1985.122 on Android does not properly restrict URL loading, which allows remote attackers to spoof the URL in the Omnibox via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 36.0.1985.106; 36.0.1985.1, 36.0.1985.2, 36.0.1985.3, 36.0.1985.4, 36.0.1985.5, 36.0.1985.6 (+93)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/07/chrome-for-android-update.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=352083
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=273865&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/07/chrome-for-android-update.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=352083
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=273865&view=revision

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