Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium package, versions <71.0.3578.80-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.33% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CHROMIUM-260839
  • published7 Dec 2018
  • disclosed11 Dec 2018

Introduced: 7 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-18344  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable chromium to version 71.0.3578.80-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium package and not the chromium package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Inappropriate allowance of the setDownloadBehavior devtools protocol feature in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker with control of an installed extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.