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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-18344 Inappropriate implementation in Extensions

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Dec 11, 2018

Added

Jan 14, 2019

Modified

Mar 30, 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.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2018-18344
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-18344
CWE-269
EUVD-EUVD-2018-10075
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-10075

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