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CVE-2019-5879 (GCVE-0-2019-5879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-25 14:22 – Updated: 2024-08-04 20:09
VLAI
Summary
Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read local files via a crafted Chrome Extension.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Insufficient policy enforcement
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 77.0.3865.75 (custom)
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