VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2019-5838
Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.80 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass restrictions on file URIs via a crafted Chrome Extension.
MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 0.77%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.77%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.80 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass restrictions on file URIs via a crafted Chrome Extension.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.77% probability · 54th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Affected
- google/chrome · opensuse/backports · opensuse/leap · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/893087
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPM7VPE27DUNJLXM4F5PAAEFFWOEND6X/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKN4GPMBQ3SDXWB4HL45II5CZ7P2E4AI/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/19
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4500
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/893087
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPM7VPE27DUNJLXM4F5PAAEFFWOEND6X/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKN4GPMBQ3SDXWB4HL45II5CZ7P2E4AI/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/19
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4500
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.