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Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <71.0.3578.80-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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-413812
  • published 7 Dec 2018
  • disclosed 11 Dec 2018
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Introduced: 7 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-18344 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 71.0.3578.80-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 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.

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.