CVE-2008-6512: Google Gears

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Google Gears: up to and including 0.5; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only

Published 2009-03-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.