CVSS 3.0
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2019-5778
Medium (6.5). EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 63% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- google:chrome
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
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/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVFHYCJGMZQUKYSIE2BXE4NLEGFGUXU5/