Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium package, versions [,143.0.7499.40)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-14176136
  • published4 Dec 2025
  • disclosed2 Dec 2025
  • creditJota Domingos

Introduced: 2 Dec 2025

NewCVE-2025-13631  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 143.0.7499.40 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management via the Google Updater process. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by tricking the system into processing a specially crafted file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1