Privilege Escalation Affecting chromium package, versions [,71.0.3578.80)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.33% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410269
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-18344  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (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 Privilege Escalation. Inappropriate allowance of the setDownloadBehavior devtools protocol feature in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker with control of an installed extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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