Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 9, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-6179

Description

Insufficient enforcement of file access permission in the activeTab case in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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Affected products

Google/Chromellm-fuzzy2 versions
<68.0.3440.75+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <68.0.3440.75
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 93.0.4577.82-1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/104887nvd
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2282nvd
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlnvd
crbug.com/816685nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-01nvd
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4256nvd

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