vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-6179: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2018:2282)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 24, 2018
Added
Jul 31, 2018
Modified
Nov 8, 2023

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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-chromium-browserredhat-upgrade-chromium-browser-debuginfo
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