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CVE-2018-6179

Date: January 9, 2019

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6179
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2282
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-01
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6179
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104887
https://crbug.com/816685
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4256
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6179
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-6179

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CWE-200

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE
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