VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2899

medium
Published 2014-01-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.82 on iOS makes certain incorrect calls to WebView methods that trigger use of an applewebdata: URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct Universal XSS (UXSS) attacks via vectors involving the document.write method.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"21.0.1180.81"}
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.0
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.1
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.2
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.31
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.32
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.33
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.34
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.35
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.36
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.37
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.38
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.39
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.41
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.46
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.47
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.48
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.49
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.50
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.51
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.52
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.53
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.54
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.55
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.56
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.57
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.59
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.60
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.61
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.62
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.63
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.64
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.68
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.69
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.70
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.71
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.72
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.73
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.74
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.75
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.76
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.77
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.78
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.79
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.80

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.