CVE-2019-5778: Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions
First published: Wed Jan 02 2019(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve-coordination@google.com David Erceg chrome-cve-admin@google.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| debian/chromium | 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1 116.0.5845.180-1~deb11u1 118.0.5993.70-1~deb11u1 116.0.5845.180-1~deb12u1 118.0.5993.70-1~deb12u1 118.0.5993.70-1 | |
| Google Chrome | <72.0.3626.81 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =9.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =6.0 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =29 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =30 | |
| redhat/chromium-browser | <72.0.3626.81 | 72.0.3626.81 |
| Google Chrome | <72.0.3626.81 | 72.0.3626.81 |
| <72.0.3626.81 | ||
| =9.0 | ||
| =6.0 | ||
| =6.0 | ||
| =6.0 | ||
| =29 | ||
| =30 |
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Reference Links
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5778
- 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 (Advisory)
- https://crbug.com/918470
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVFHYCJGMZQUKYSIE2BXE4NLEGFGUXU5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZQOP53LXXPRGD4N5OBKGQTSMFXT32LF6/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4395
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=918470
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1670767
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1670766
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670762
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZQOP53LXXPRGD4N5OBKGQTSMFXT32LF6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVFHYCJGMZQUKYSIE2BXE4NLEGFGUXU5/
Peer vulnerabilities
(Found alongside the following vulnerabilities)
- CVE-2019-5754
- CVE-2019-5782
- 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-2019-13768
- CVE-2019-5765
- CVE-2019-5785
- CVE-2019-5766
- CVE-2019-5767
- CVE-2019-5768
- CVE-2019-5769
- CVE-2019-5770
- CVE-2019-5771
- CVE-2019-5772
- CVE-2019-5773
- CVE-2019-5774
- CVE-2019-5775
- CVE-2019-5776
- CVE-2019-5777
- CVE-2018-20073
- CVE-2019-5779
- CVE-2019-5780
- CVE-2019-5783
- CVE-2019-5781
- CVE-2019-13684
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