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CVE-2008-6512

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Description

Cross-domain vulnerability in the WorkerPool API in Google Gears before 0.5.4.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and the intended access restrictions of the allowCrossOrigin function by hosting an assumed-safe file type containing Google Gear commands on the target domain, then accessing that file from the attacking domain, whose response headers are not checked and cause the worker code to run in the target domain.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published3/24/2009

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

google:gears

References

http://blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/12/breaking-google-gears-cross-origin-communication-model.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/upcoming/api_workerpool.html#cross_origin(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-December/066291.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33062(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32698(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47173(cve@mitre.org)

http://blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/12/breaking-google-gears-cross-origin-communication-model.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/upcoming/api_workerpool.html#cross_origin(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-December/066291.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/33062(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32698(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47173(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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