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CVE-2014-7899

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Google Chrome before 38.0.2125.101 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar by placing a blob: substring at the beginning of the URL, followed by the original URI scheme and a long username string.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 38.0.2125.7

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/11/stable-channel-update_18.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1894.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60194
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71160
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031241
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=389734
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98787
• https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=279232&view=revision
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/11/stable-channel-update_18.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1894.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60194
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71160

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