CVE-2016-2845
The Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75, does not ignore a URL's path…
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- Chrome
Description
The Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75, does not ignore a URL's path component in the case of a ServiceWorker fetch, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages by reading CSP violation reports, related to FrameFetchContext.cpp and ResourceFetcher.cpp.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1454003003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1035185 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=591402 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=542060 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/using-content-security-policy-for-evil.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 84168 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-2920-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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