CVE-2023-3734
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-3734 is a medium severity vulnerability affecting Google Chrome's Picture In Picture feature prior to version 115.0.5790.98. The vulnerability was reported by Thomas Orlita on June 1, 2023, and allows a remote attacker to potentially spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) through a crafted HTML page (Chrome Release).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction. The scope is unchanged, and it only impacts integrity with low severity (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows attackers to potentially spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) in Google Chrome through a specially crafted HTML page, which could lead to user deception in the browser's address bar display (Chrome Release).

Mitigation and workarounds

Google has addressed this vulnerability in Chrome version 115.0.5790.98 and later. Users and administrators are advised to update to the latest version of Google Chrome to mitigate this security issue. The fix was included in the July 2023 stable channel update for desktop (Chrome Release).

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