CVE-2019-13702

Publication date 25 November 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Inappropriate implementation in installer in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted executable.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	19.10 eoan	Fixed 79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
	19.04 disco	Fixed 78.0.3904.70-0ubuntu0.19.04.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 78.0.3904.70-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 78.0.3904.70-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13702