CVE-2013-2853
The HTTPS implementation in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 does not ensure that headers are terminated by \r\n\r\n (carriage return, newline, carriage return, newline), which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to have an unspecified impact via…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The HTTPS implementation in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 does not ensure that headers are terminated by \r\n\r\n (carriage return, newline, carriage return, newline), which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors that trigger header truncation.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 1.12% probability · 66th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
EPSS 1.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=44b400c80726ee5d205a27730a0c846be656a071
- http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f4f9f4948de5a59462e13ad712d7d9117238aeea
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=244260
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17033
- http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=44b400c80726ee5d205a27730a0c846be656a071
- http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f4f9f4948de5a59462e13ad712d7d9117238aeea
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=244260
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17033
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.