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Information Exposure Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <66.0.3359.139-0ubuntu0.18.04.3

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.33% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-407548
  • published 27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 9 Jan 2019
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Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-6109 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 66.0.3359.139-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 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.

readAsText() can indefinitely read the file picked by the user, rather than only once at the time the file is picked in File API in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to access data on the user file system without explicit consent via a crafted HTML page.