Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,71.0.3578.80)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409055
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-18349  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 71.0.3578.80 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Remote frame navigations was incorrectly permitted to local resources in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 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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