CVE-2010-1236
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 1.4% (72th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-1266)
- Published
- April 1, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-1266 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- flock / flock
- google / chrome
- google / chrome
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References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37383(Exploit)
- http://codereview.chromium.org/858001
- http://flock.com/security/
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/03/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43068(Vendor Advisory)
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=41244
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35948
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14067
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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