CVE-2019-5793 Security feature bypass in Chrome

What is CVE-2019-5793?

CVE-2019-5793 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 23 May 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to initiate the extensions installation user interface via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5793?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5793?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2019-5793 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5793 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome

• CVE-2022-4135 Google Chromium GPU Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16017 Google Chrome Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16010 Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Google Chrome vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5793, GHSA-g5c7-fpp6-jv7r, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5793.