Once Chrome’s Site Isolation security feature is circumvented, account data from other websites the user visits using Chrome, “including authentication, financials, private conversations in social media, personal emails, and more” are vulnerable and can be harvested with ease.Īccording to Guardio’s CTO Michael Vainshtein:
The issue is being traced as CVE-2019-12592 and is a Universal Cross-Site Scripting (UXSS) coding error that makes it possible for an attacker to, in the words of Guardio’s research team, “bypass the browser’s same origin policy, granting the attacker code execution privileges in Iframes beyond Evernote’s domain.” “Due to Evernote’s widespread popularity, this issue had the potential of affecting its consumers and companies who use the extension – about 4,600,000 users at the time of discovery.” Online security company Guardio discovered the flaw and had this to say:
If so, be advised that the developer recently reported that a critical flaw in the extension could allow hackers to access user information from third party online services. Do you use Evernote Web Clipper for the Chrome web browser?
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