CVE-2010-1236

medium
Published 2010-04-01 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The protocolIs function in platform/KURLGoogle.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r55822, as used in Google Chrome before 4.1.249.1036 and Flock Browser 3.x before 3.0.0.4112, does not properly handle whitespace at the beginning of a URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted javascript: URL, as demonstrated by a \x00javascript:alert sequence.

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.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"4.1.249.1035"}
gcp googlechrome0.1.38.1
gcp googlechrome0.1.38.2
gcp googlechrome0.1.38.4
gcp googlechrome0.1.40.1
gcp googlechrome0.1.42.2
gcp googlechrome0.1.42.3
gcp googlechrome1.0.154.53
gcp googlechrome1.0.154.59
gcp googlechrome1.0.154.64
gcp googlechrome1.0.154.65
gcp googlechrome2.0.169.0
gcp googlechrome2.0.169.1
gcp googlechrome2.0.170.0
gcp googlechrome2.0.172.2
gcp googlechrome2.0.172.8
gcp googlechrome2.0.172.27
gcp googlechrome2.0.172.28
gcp googlechrome2.0.172.30
gcp googlechrome2.0.172.33
gcp googlechrome2.0.172.37
gcp googlechrome2.0.172.38
gcp googlechrome3.0.182.2
gcp googlechrome3.0.190.2
gcp googlechrome3.0.195.25
gcp googlechrome3.0.195.27
gcp googlechrome3.0.195.33
gcp googlechrome3.0.195.36
gcp googlechrome3.0.195.37
gcp googlechrome3.0.195.38
gcp googlechrome4.0.212.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.212.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.221.8
gcp googlechrome4.0.222.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.222.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.222.5
gcp googlechrome4.0.222.12
gcp googlechrome4.0.223.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.223.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.223.2
gcp googlechrome4.0.223.4
gcp googlechrome4.0.223.5
gcp googlechrome4.0.223.7
gcp googlechrome4.0.223.8
gcp googlechrome4.0.223.9
gcp googlechrome4.0.224.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.229.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.235.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.236.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.237.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.237.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.239.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.240.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.241.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.242.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.243.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.244.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.245.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.245.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.246.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.247.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.248.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.2
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.3
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.4
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.5
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.6
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.7
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.8
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.9
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.10
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.11
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.12
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.14
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.16
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.17
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.18
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.19
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.20
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.21
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.22
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.23
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.24
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.25
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.26
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.27
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.28
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.29
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.30
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.31
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.32
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.33
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.34
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.35
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.36
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.37
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.38
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.39
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.40
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.41
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.42
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.43
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.44
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.45
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.46
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.47
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.48
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.49
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.50
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.51
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.52
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.53
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.54
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.55
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.56
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.57
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.58
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.59
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.60
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.61
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.62
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.63
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.64
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.65
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.66
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.67
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.68
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.69
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.70
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.71
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.72
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.73
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.74
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.75
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.76
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.77
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.78
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.79
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.80
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.81
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.82
gcp googlechrome4.0.249.89
gcp googlechrome4.0.250.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.250.2
gcp googlechrome4.0.251.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.252.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.254.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.255.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.256.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.257.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.258.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.259.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.260.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.261.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.262.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.263.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.264.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.265.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.266.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.267.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.268.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.269.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.271.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.272.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.275.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.275.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.276.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.277.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.278.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.286.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.287.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.288.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.288.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.289.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.290.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.292.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.294.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.295.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.296.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.299.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.300.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.301.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.302.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.302.1
gcp googlechrome4.0.302.2
gcp googlechrome4.0.302.3
gcp googlechrome4.0.303.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.304.0
gcp googlechrome4.0.305.0
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.0
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.1001
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.1004
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.1006
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.1007
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.1008
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.1009
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.1010
gcp googlechrome4.1.249.1011

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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