CVE-2019-5768

Publication date 19 February 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 72.0.3626.119-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 72.0.3626.119-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 72.0.3626.119-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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