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 ...

CVE-2009-1412: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Argument injection vulnerability in the chromehtml: protocol handler in Google Chrome before 1.0.154.59, when invoked by Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files, and open tabs for URLs that do not satisfy the IsWebSafeScheme restriction, via a web page that...

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...