vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6179 Local file information leak in Extensions

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 9, 2019
Added
Jan 18, 2019
Modified
Sep 18, 2025

Description

Insufficient enforcement of file access permission in the activeTab case in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
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