vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-18344: Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 11, 2018
Added
Aug 19, 2019
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-chromiumgentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-google-chrome
Title
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