National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6512

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: gears-allowcrossorigin-security-bypass(47173)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47173

External Source: BID

Name: 32698

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32698

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33062

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33062

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://code.google.com/apis/gears/upcoming/api_workerpool.html#cross_origin

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://code.google.com/apis/gears/upcoming/api_workerpool.html#cross_origin

External Source: MISC

Name: http://blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/12/breaking-google-gears-cross-origin-communication-model.html

Hyperlink:http://blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/12/breaking-google-gears-cross-origin-communication-model.html