Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-18344

Description

Inappropriate allowance of the setDownloadBehavior devtools protocol feature in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker with control of an installed extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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Google/Chromellm-fuzzy3 versions
<71.0.3578.80+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: <71.0.3578.80
- cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <71.0.3578.80
- (no CPE)range: <71.0.3578.80
Google/Chrome Extensionllm-fuzzy
Range: <71.0.3578.80
Debian/linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Desktop
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Server
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Workstation
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012%20SP2
< 93.0.4577.82-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 93.0.4577.82-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 71.0.3578.98-80.1

cvss	0.423
epss	0.001
exploit	0.000
kev	0.000
patch	0.000
ransomware	0.000

CVE-2018-18344

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