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Status published
Medium
CVE-2019-5838
Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/893087
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKN4GPMBQ3SDXWB4HL45II5CZ7P2E4AI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPM7VPE27DUNJLXM4F5PAAEFFWOEND6X/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4500
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/19
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
Chrome
Vulnerable Versions:
unspecified
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 27th, 2019
Last Modified:
August 4th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.