Local File Access Vulnerability in Google Chrome DevTools

CVE-2018-16081 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Allowing the chrome.debugger API to run on file:// URLs in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to access files on the local file system without file access permission via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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