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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6179

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6179

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/09/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/18/2019
Modified
04/18/2024

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(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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