FKIE_CVE-2019-5879

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-11-25 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:38
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://crbug.com/986043
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crbug.com/986043
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
google chrome *
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  "id": "CVE-2019-5879",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T02:38:22.400",
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