vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-5081 Extension verification bypass

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 27, 2017
Added
Dec 6, 2017
Modified
Aug 12, 2025

Description

Lack of verification of an extension's locale folder in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 59.0.3071.92 for Android, allowed an attacker with local write access to modify extensions by modifying extension files.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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