CVE-2013-6166 Cross-site request forgery in n/a

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

Remote attackers can force persistent logout via CSRF by exploiting Chrome's lack of cookie character validation, requiring user interaction.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2013-6166?

CVE-2013-6166 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 15 Feb 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Google Chrome before 29 sends HTTP Cookie headers without first validating that they have the required character-set restrictions, which allows remote attackers to conduct the equivalent of a persistent Logout CSRF attack via a crafted parameter that forces a web application to set a malformed cookie within an HTTP response.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6166?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2013-6166?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-6166 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-6166 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2013-6166 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

All Google Chrome vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-c3rj-c9pq-rmgx.

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