CVE-2019-5778

medium

Description

A missing case for handling special schemes in permission request checks in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass extension permission checks for privileged pages via a crafted Chrome Extension.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106767

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0309

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

https://crbug.com/918470

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JVFHYCJGMZQUKYSIE2BXE4NLEGFGUXU5/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZQOP53LXXPRGD4N5OBKGQTSMFXT32LF6/

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4395

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-02-19

Updated: 2019-04-18

Type: CWE-79

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM