Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,87.0.4280.66)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409477
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Jan 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-16027  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 87.0.4280.66 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.66 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain potentially sensitive information from the user's disk via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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