THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-6512
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2008-6512

Gears vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Google
Affected product
Gears
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2009-03-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-6512

  • Confirm whether Google Gears is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-6512.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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