VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-7939

medium
Published 2015-01-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
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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 40.0.2214.91, when the Harmony proxy in Google V8 is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted JavaScript code with Proxy.create and console.log calls, related to HTTP responses that lack an "X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff" header.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"40.0.2214.85"}
chromiumchromium40.0.2214.110

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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