CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-3931
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-11-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in browser/download/download_exe.cc in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32 allows remote attackers to force the download of certain dangerous files via a "Content-Disposition: attachment" designation, as demonstrated by (1) .mht and (2) .mhtml files, which are automatically executed by Internet Explorer 6; (3) .svg files, which are automatically executed by Safari; (4) .xml files; (5) .htt files; (6) .xsl files; (7) .xslt files; and (8) image files that are forbidden by the victim's site policy.
Affected configurations
• google chrome (<= 3.0.195.21)
• google chrome 0.2.149.27
• google chrome 0.2.149.29
• google chrome 0.2.149.30
• google chrome 0.2.152.1
• google chrome 0.2.153.1
• google chrome 0.3.154.0
• google chrome 0.3.154.3
• google chrome 0.4.154.18
• google chrome 0.4.154.22
• google chrome 0.4.154.31
• google chrome 0.4.154.33
• google chrome 1.0.154.36
• google chrome 1.0.154.39
• google chrome 1.0.154.42
• google chrome 1.0.154.43
• google chrome 1.0.154.46
• google chrome 1.0.154.48
• google chrome 1.0.154.52
• google chrome 1.0.154.53
• google chrome 1.0.154.59
• google chrome 1.0.154.65
• google chrome 2.0.156.1
• google chrome 2.0.157.0
• google chrome 2.0.157.2
• google chrome 2.0.158.0
• google chrome 2.0.159.0
• google chrome 2.0.169.0
• google chrome 2.0.169.1
• google chrome 2.0.170.0
• google chrome 2.0.172
• google chrome 2.0.172.2
• google chrome 2.0.172.8
• google chrome 2.0.172.27
• google chrome 2.0.172.28
• google chrome 2.0.172.30
• google chrome 2.0.172.31
• google chrome 2.0.172.33
• google chrome 2.0.172.37
• google chrome 2.0.172.38
• google chrome 3.0.182.2
• google chrome 3.0.190.2
• google chrome 3.0.193.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23979 code.google.com
- http://codereview.chromium.org/243115 codereview.chromium.org
- http://codereview.chromium.org/261022 codereview.chromium.org
- http://codereview.chromium.org/download/issue243115_2002.diff codereview.chromium.org
- http://codereview.chromium.org/download/issue261022_1.diff codereview.chromium.org
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html googlechromereleases.blogspot.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37273 Vendor Advisory
- http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/using-blended-browser-threats-involving-chrome-to-steal-files-on-your-computer/ securethoughts.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/59742 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507713 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36947 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3159 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54171 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23979 code.google.com
- http://codereview.chromium.org/243115 codereview.chromium.org
- http://codereview.chromium.org/261022 codereview.chromium.org
- http://codereview.chromium.org/download/issue243115_2002.diff codereview.chromium.org
- http://codereview.chromium.org/download/issue261022_1.diff codereview.chromium.org
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html googlechromereleases.blogspot.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37273 Vendor Advisory
- http://securethoughts.com/2009/11/using-blended-browser-threats-involving-chrome-to-steal-files-on-your-computer/ securethoughts.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/59742 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507713 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36947 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3159 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54171 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com