CVE-2019-5768Improper Privilege Management in Google Chrome

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 19
Latest updateMay 13

Description

DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read local files via a crafted Chrome Extension.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages6 packages

CVEListV5google/chromeunspecified72.0.3626.81
NVDgoogle/chrome< 72.0.3626.81
Debianchromium/chromium< 72.0.3626.81-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Fedora 29, 30

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-vh8p-64fr-j7xq: DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 722022-05-13
OSV
CVE-2019-5768: DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 722019-02-19
CVEList
CVE-2019-5768: DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 722019-02-19

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools2019-01-29
Debian
CVE-2019-5768: chromium - DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google ...2019

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-5754 CVE-2019-5755 CVE-2019-5756 CVE-2019-5757 CVE-2019-5758 CVE-2019-5759 CVE-2019-5760 CVE-2019-5761 CVE-2019-5762 CVE-2019-5763 CVE-2019-5764 CVE-2019-5765 CVE-2019-5766 CVE-2019-5767 CVE-2019-01-30
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-5754 CVE-2019-5755 CVE-2019-5756 CVE-2019-5757 CVE-2019-5758 CVE-2019-5759 CVE-2019-5760 CVE-2019-5761 CVE-2019-5762 CVE-2019-5763 CVE-2019-5764 CVE-2019-5765 CVE-2019-5766 CVE-2019-5767 CVE-2019-01-30
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-5768 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools2019-01-30
CVE-2019-5768 — Improper Privilege Management in Google | cvebase