Design/Logic Flaw

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP, in some situations possibly involving an incompletely configured protocol handler, does not properly implement setting the document.location property to a value specifying a protocol associated with an external application, which allows remote attackers to cau...

CVE-2009-1412

Google Chrome before 1.0.154.59 is affected by CVE-2009-1412 via the chromehtml: protocol handler. A web page could set document.location to a chromehtml: value and, when launched from Internet Explorer, allow enumeration of local files and opening tabs for non‑IsWebSafe URLs, enabling potential ...

Stable Update: Security Fix

Edit 24 April: Removed "Such an attack only works if Chrome is not already running." Google Chrome's Stable channel has been updated to 1.0.154.59 to fix a security issue: CVE-2009-1412 ChromeHTML protocol handler same-origin bypass An error in handling URLs with a chromehtml: protocol could allo...