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CVE-2019-5768
DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.2%
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- Chrome
Description
DevTools API not correctly gating on extension capability in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read local files via a crafted Chrome Extension.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% 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 6.5.
Weakness
- Insufficient policy enforcement
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (7)
- 106767 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:0309 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4395 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/805557 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-561eae4626 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-05a780936d (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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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