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CVE-2014-3166

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Public Key Pinning (PKP) implementation in Google Chrome before 36.0.1985.143 on Windows, OS X, and Linux, and before 36.0.1985.135 on Android, does not correctly consider the properties of SPDY connections, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging the use of multiple domain names.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Google Chrome: before 36.0.1985.143; before 36.0.1985.135; before 36.0.1985.57 — fixed in 36.0.1985.135, 36.0.1985.143, 36.0.1985.57

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 36.0.1985.135, 36.0.1985.143, 36.0.1985.57. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/chrome-for-android-update.html
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/chrome-for-ios-update.html
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/stable-channel-update.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59693
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59904
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60685
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60798
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3039
• http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg13345.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69202
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030732

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