CVE-2019-5838

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.80 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass restrictions on file URIs via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Score

CVSS 3.1 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Published

2019-06-27

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-863

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Chrome (Google)
• Backports (Opensuse)
• Leap (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/893087
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPM7VPE27DUNJLXM4F5PAA…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKN4GPMBQ3SDXWB4HL45II…
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/19
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4500