High severity7.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 9, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-16081
CVE-2018-16081
Description
Allowing the chrome.debugger API to run on file:// URLs in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to access files on the local file system without file access permission via a crafted Chrome Extension.
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