CVE-2013-2900

high
Published 2013-08-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The FilePath::ReferencesParent function in files/file_path.cc in Google Chrome before 29.0.1547.57 on Windows does not properly handle pathname components composed entirely of . (dot) and whitespace characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted directory name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"29.0.1547.56"}
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.0
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.1
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.2
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.3
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.4
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.5
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.7
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.8
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.9
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.10
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.11
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.12
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.13
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.14
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.15
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.16
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.17
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.18
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.19
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.20
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.21
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.22
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.23
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.27
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.28
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.29
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.30
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.31
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.32
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.33
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.34
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.35
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.36
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.37
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.38
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.39
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.40
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.41
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.42
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.45
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.46
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.47
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.48
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.49
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.50
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.51
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.52
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.53
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.54
gcp googlechrome29.0.1547.55

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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