CVE-2008-6512
Cross-domain vulnerability in the WorkerPool API in Google Gears before 0.5.4.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy…
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- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- http://blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/12/breaking-google-gears-cross-origin-communication-model.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://code.google.com/apis/gears/upcoming/api_workerpool.html#cross_origin (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- gears-allowcrossorigin-security-bypass(47173) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 33062 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32698 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20081208 Breaking Google Gears' Cross-Origin Communication Model (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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