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CVE-2020-8910

Published: 26 March 2020

A URL parsing issue in goog.uri of the Google Closure Library versions up to and including v20200224 allows an attacker to send malicious URLs to be parsed by the library and return the wrong authority. Mitigation: update your library to version v20200315.

Notes

AuthorNote
alexmurray
The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in
Ubuntu
mdeslaur
starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just
a script that installs the Chromium snap
the third_party/google_input_tools directory doesn't look like
it is built in Ubuntu binary packages, marking as not-affected

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
chromium-browser
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not built)
eoan Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
groovy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(code not present)
impish Not vulnerable
(code not present)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable
(code not built)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/google/closure-library/commit/294fc00b01d248419d8f8de37580adf2a0024fc9
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needs triage

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Needs triage

kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mantic Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N