CVE-2019-5879

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CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p46

Published

Nov 25, 2019 (Nov 25, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to read local files via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Vendors: google
Products: chrome
Weakness: CWE-863
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.6%)

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