Unvalidated Origin in Blink Allows for Sensitive Information Disclosure

CVE-2015-6759 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The shouldTreatAsUniqueOrigin function in platform/weborigin/SecurityOrigin.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71, does not ensure that the origin of a LocalStorage resource is considered unique, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a blob: URL.

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