CVE-2019-5838 - chromium-browser: Overly permissive tab access in Extensions

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MEDIUM

chromium-browser: Overly permissive tab access in Extensions

Published Jun 27, 2019

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.77%

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.80 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass restrictions on file URIs via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Affected products

Vendor Google Product Chrome Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <75.0.3770.80

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Google

Chrome

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<75.0.3770.80

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

chromium-browser-0:75.0.3770.80-1.el6_10

Fixed · RHSA-2019:1477

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary	chromium-browser-0:75.0.3770.80-1.el6_10	Fixed	RHSA-2019:1477

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-863

Incorrect Authorization

References (12)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5838
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1718267
Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/893087
x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPM7VPE27DUNJLXM4F5PAAEFFWOEND6X/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKN4GPMBQ3SDXWB4HL45II5CZ7P2E4AI/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5838
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/19
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5838
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4500
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5838		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1718267		Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html		x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/893087		x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CPM7VPE27DUNJLXM4F5PAAEFFWOEND6X/		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKN4GPMBQ3SDXWB4HL45II5CZ7P2E4AI/		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5838
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/19		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5838
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4500		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN