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Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <72.0.3626.119-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.4% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-339813
  • published 30 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 19 Feb 2019
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Introduced: 30 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-5768 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 72.0.3626.119-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read local files via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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