Information Exposure Affecting chromium package, versions [,72.0.3626.81)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409248
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jun 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jun 2019

CVE-2018-20073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 72.0.3626.81 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Use of extended attributes in downloads in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a local attacker to read download URLs via the filesystem.

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