CVE-2014-3170: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

extensions/common/url_pattern.cc in Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.94 does not prevent use of a '\0' character in a host name, which allows remote attackers to spoof the extension permission dialog by relying on truncation after this character.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 37.0.2062.93; version 37.0.2062.0 only; version 37.0.2062.1 only; version 37.0.2062.2 only; version 37.0.2062.3 only; version 37.0.2062.4 only; …

Published 2014-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.