- From: Daniel Cheng <dcheng@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:39:24 +0000
- To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Received on Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:45:42 UTC
Currently, the Clipboard API [1] mandates support for a number of formats. Unfortunately, we do not believe it is possible to safely support writing a number of formats to the clipboard: - image/png - image/jpg, image/jpeg - image/gif If these types are supported, malicious web content can trivially write a malformed GIF/JPG/PNG to the clipboard and trigger code execution when pasting in a program with a vulnerable image decoder. This provides a trivial way to bypass the sandbox that web content is usually in. Given this, I'd like to propose that we remove the above formats from the list of mandatory data types, and avoid adding support for any more complex formats. Daniel [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#mandatory-data-types-1
Received on Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:45:42 UTC