CVE-2010-0657
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 1.9%EU EUVD
Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 on Windows does not perform the expected encoding, escaping, and quoting for the URL in the --app argument in a desktop shortcut, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs or obtain sensitive information by tricking a user into creating a crafted shortcut.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 1.9% (80th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0688)
- Published
- February 18, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0688 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- google / chrome
- google / chrome
- google / chrome
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- google / chrome
- microsoft / windows
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23693
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
- http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14306
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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