Access Restriction Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,61.0.3163.113)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410389
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jan 2019

CVE-2017-15404  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 61.0.3163.113 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An ability to process crash dumps under root privileges and inappropriate symlinks handling could lead to a local privilege escalation in Crash Reporting in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 61.0.3163.113 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page.

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