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CVE-2018-6179

Published: Jan 9, 2019

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google	Chrome	affected `unspecified - < 68.0.3440.75`

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

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https://crbug.com/816685

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