Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.96 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to…

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.96 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass an enterprise policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.64% · top 49% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• Insufficient policy enforcement

Affected products

• Google · Chrome

  • affected 116.0.5845.96 – < 116.0.5845.96

References (6)

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_15.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://crbug.com/1467743 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5479 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OCFEK63FUHFXZH5MSG6TNQOXMQWM4M5S/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2DMXHPRUGBUDNHZCZCIVMWAUIEXEGMGT/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34 (opens in a new tab)x_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 13 Feb 2025, 17:13 UTC.