CVE-2019-5838 Security feature bypass in Chrome

What is CVE-2019-5838?

CVE-2019-5838 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 27 Jun 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 API in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.80 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass restrictions on file URIs via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5838?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5838?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2019-5838 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5838 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5838, GHSA-h7hj-53wf-rwww, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5838.