Vulnerability/
GHSA-5hw5-4q87-m6x9

GHSA-5hw5-4q87-m6x9: Medium severity vulnerability

Published Oct 28, 2026

Updated

Insufficient policy enforcement in chrome-devtools-mcp in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 1.5.0 allowed a local attacker to perform arbitrary read/write via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Event History

Oct 28, 2026

CVE Published

via OSV·06:04 PM

Data Sourced

via OSV·06:04 PM

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What must an attacker be able to do to exploit this issue?

The attacker must have local access to the Linux system and cause interaction with a malicious file. The supplied vector indicates no pre-existing privileges are required, but user interaction is required.

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