# CVE-2013-2876: browser/extensions/api/tabs/tabs\_api.cc in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 does not properly enforce restrictions on the capture of screen

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2013-07-10 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

browser/extensions/api/tabs/tabs_api.cc in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 does not properly enforce restrictions on the capture of screenshots by extensions, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the content of a previous page via vectors involving an interstitial page.

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## References

- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=229504
- http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ac41418e77bf9d82a6e7875c504fad5fd2ba1f7f
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17350
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html

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