FKIE_CVE-2025-6179

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-16 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:01
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Permissions Bypass in Extension Management in Google ChromeOS 16181.27.0 on managed Chrome devices allows a local attacker to disable extensions and access Developer Mode, including loading additional extensions via exploiting vulnerabilities using the ExtHang3r and ExtPrint3r tools.
References
7f6e188d-c52a-4a19-8674-3c3fa7d1fc7fhttps://issues.chromium.org/issues/b/399652193Broken Link
7f6e188d-c52a-4a19-8674-3c3fa7d1fc7fhttps://issuetracker.google.com/issues/399652193Exploit, Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
google chrome_os 16181.27.0
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