CVE-2024-28120 API key leak in codeium-chrome
A malicious website can steal the user's Codeium API key via the extension's service worker, allowing impersonation on the backend server.
- 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-2024-28120?
CVE-2024-28120 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Exafunction codeium-chrome, published on 11 Mar 2024. 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
codeium-chrome is an open source code completion plugin for the chrome web browser. The service worker of the codeium-chrome extension doesn't check the sender when receiving an external message. This allows an attacker to host a website that will steal the user's Codeium api-key, and thus impersonate the user on the backend autocomplete server. This issue has not been addressed. Users are advised to monitor the usage of their API key.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-28120?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Codeium Codeium.
How do I fix CVE-2024-28120?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-28120 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-28120 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-28120 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8c7j-2h97-q63p.