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HIGH

chromium-browser: Local file access in DevTools

Published Jan 9, 2019

Description

Allowing the chrome.debugger API to run on file:// URLs in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to access files on the local file system without file access permission via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Chrome
Published Jan 9, 2019
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Aug 29, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Sep 4, 2018