CVE-2023-2940

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: May 30, 2023
Updated: Mar 12, 2025
Reserved: May 27, 2023

Description

Inappropriate implementation in Downloads in Google Chrome prior to 114.0.5735.90 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass file access restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ChromeGoogle	114.0.5735.90 to before 114.0.5735.90Affected

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html
https://crbug.com/1426807
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5418
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-11
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34

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