CVE-2018-18344

Inappropriate allowance of the setDownloadBehavior devtools protocol feature in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker with control of an installed extension to access files on the local file system via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Published: Dec 11, 2018
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2018-18344
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Medium
Score: 6.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-269

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
google / chrome	-	71.0.3578.80
debian / debian_linux	9.0	9.0.x
redhat / enterprise_linux_desktop	6.0	6.0.x
redhat / enterprise_linux_server	6.0	6.0.x
redhat / enterprise_linux_workstation	6.0	6.0.x

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106084
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3803
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/866426
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4352

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2018-18344