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CVE-2019-5879

Publication date 25 November 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.75 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 19.10 eoan
Fixed 77.0.3865.120-0ubuntu1~snap1
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 77.0.3865.90-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 77.0.3865.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N