Lack of verification of an extension's locale folder in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 59.0.3071.92…

Description

Lack of verification of an extension's locale folder in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 59.0.3071.92 for Android, allowed an attacker with local write access to modify extensions by modifying extension files.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.34% · top 73% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.

Weakness

• Inappropriate implementation
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 59.0.3071.92 for Android

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 59.0.3071.92 for Android

References (6)

• 98861 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:1399 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/672008 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1038622 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• GLSA-201706-20 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 14:47 UTC.