UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5768

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5768

    Published: 19 Feb 2019Last Modified: 8 Sept 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-5768

    Summary:

    Details: DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read local files via a crafted Chrome Extension.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-5768, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5768

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chromium-browser

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -72.0.3626.119-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

    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
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