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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6140 Restrictions bypass in the debugger extension API

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6140 Restrictions bypass in the debugger extension API

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/09/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/18/2019
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Allowing the chrome.debugger API to attach to Web UI pages in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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