CVE-2016-2845 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2845?

CVE-2016-2845 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 6 Mar 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75, does not ignore a URL's path component in the case of a ServiceWorker fetch, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages by reading CSP violation reports, related to FrameFetchContext.cpp and ResourceFetcher.cpp.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2845?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2845?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-2845 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2845 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-gpvp-v7vw-rjmm, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2845.