Bypassing Access Restrictions in Google Chrome Developer Tools Subsystem

Bypassing Access Restrictions in Google Chrome Developer Tools Subsystem

CVE-2016-5143 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The Developer Tools (aka DevTools) subsystem in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, mishandles the script-path hostname, remoteBase parameter, and remoteFrontendUrl parameter, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URL, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5144.

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