During the encryption process the Widevine DRM technology saves the premium subscriber only videos in an unprotected area of the computer’s memory. The team of researchers created an application that extracts this data and then saves it to disk without having to worry about digital rights. Google has acknowledge the bug with Chrome and said that it is not specific to Chrome, but to the entire Chromium project, meaning other browsers which used Chromium are affected as well. Safari, Firefox, IE and Edge are not affected by the bug as use different DRM modules. The researchers have stated that forcing Widevine encryption process in a separate container like Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) inside the computer’s memory would fix the bug. However, as of now the flaw remains unpatched with the patch expected in next Chromium/Google Chrome release.
