Information Exposure Affecting chromium package, versions [,66.0.3359.117)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.33% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410053
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-6109  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 66.0.3359.117 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure readAsText() can indefinitely read the file picked by the user, rather than only once at the time the file is picked in File API in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to access data on the user file system without explicit consent via a crafted HTML page.

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