CVE-2014-3188: google chrome Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-3188 is a high (CVSS 10.0) Code Injection vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 6.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 08-10-2014
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Google Chrome before 38.0.2125.101 and Chrome OS before 38.0.2125.101 do not properly handle the interaction of IPC and Google V8, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving JSON data, related to improper parsing of an escaped index by ParseJsonObject in json-parser.h.

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.