chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions
Published Feb 19, 2019
6.5
MEDIUMCVSS 3.0
EPSS 1.01%
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.
Affected products
-
- Version unspecifiedStatusaffectedConstraints<72.0.3626.81
- Version
Configuration 2
- 9.0
Configuration 3
- 6.0
- 6.0
- 6.0
Configuration 4
- 29
- 30
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
chromium-browser-0:72.0.3626.81-1.el6_10
Fixed · RHSA-2019:0309
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary | chromium-browser-0:72.0.3626.81-1.el6_10 | Fixed | RHSA-2019:0309 |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
1 other source (Red Hat) ▾
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2021–2026- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
Percentile over time
- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
Table of values (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 1.01% (0.01014) | 61.99th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 1.01% (0.01014) | 61.75th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jul 20, 2024 | 0.51% (0.00507) | 76.74th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 13, 2024 | 0.51% (0.00507) | 75.84th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 11, 2024 | 0.43% (0.00434) | 71.93th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 8, 2023 | 0.61% (0.00615) | 76.32th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.45% (0.00445) | 70.95th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.11% (0.01108) | 55.18th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.11% (0.01108) | 51.54th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 8.87% (0.08874) | 82.92th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 3.02% (0.03019) | 64.98th | v1 |
| Jan 6, 2022 | 3.02% (0.03019) | 64.65th | v1 |
| Jan 5, 2022 | 0.69% (0.00689) | 48.95th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Apr 14, 2021 | 0.69% (0.00689) | 0.00th | v1 |
References (11)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106767 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0309 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5778 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670762 Issue Tracking
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://crbug.com/918470 x_refsource_MISC
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVFHYCJGMZQUKYSIE2BXE4NLEGFGUXU5/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZQOP53LXXPRGD4N5OBKGQTSMFXT32LF6/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5778
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5778
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4395 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106767 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0309 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5778 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670762 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://crbug.com/918470 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVFHYCJGMZQUKYSIE2BXE4NLEGFGUXU5/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZQOP53LXXPRGD4N5OBKGQTSMFXT32LF6/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5778 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5778 | ||
| https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4395 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
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