UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18344

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18344

    Published: 11 Dec 2018Last Modified: 8 Sept 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-18344

    Summary:

    Details: Inappropriate allowance of the setDownloadBehavior devtools protocol feature in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker with control of an installed extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18344, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18344

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chromium-browser

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -71.0.3578.80-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    45.0.2454.101-0ubuntu1.1201

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High