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CVE-2018-16086
Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to…
Medium5.4EPSS 0.46%
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- Chrome
Description
Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted Chrome Extension.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
- Insufficient policy enforcement
- CWE-285 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-285 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (2)
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/844428 (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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