CVE-2011-3046

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2011-3046 · Published 09/03/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-3046 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting safari (apple), chrome (google).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.4%, higher than 91.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 5.1.7, 17.0.963.78 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
safari apple	`< 5.1.7`	`5.1.7`
chrome google	`< 17.0.963.78`	`17.0.963.78`

Description

The extension subsystem in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.78 does not properly handle history navigation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging a "Universal XSS (UXSS)" issue.

References

code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail · Vendor Advisory
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail · Vendor Advisory
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/03/chrome-stable-channel-update.html · Release Notes
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00000.html · Mailing List
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00002.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00012.html · Mailing List
secunia.com/advisories/47292 · Not Applicable
secunia.com/advisories/48321 · Not Applicable
secunia.com/advisories/48419 · Not Applicable
secunia.com/advisories/48527 · Not Applicable
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-19.xml · Third Party Advisory

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