Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium package, versions [,126.0.6478.54)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-7254905
  • published14 Jun 2024
  • disclosed11 Jun 2024
  • creditMatt Howard

Introduced: 11 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-5840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 126.0.6478.54 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management due to improper handling of CORS policies. An attacker can bypass security restrictions by crafting a malicious HTML page.

Note: 126.0.6478.56 is the fixed version for Windows and Mac. Version 126.0.6478.54 fixes the vulnerability in Linux

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