Information Exposure Affecting chromium package, versions [,68.0.3440.75)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409053
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-6179  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 68.0.3440.75 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Insufficient enforcement of file access permission in the activeTab case in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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