CVE-2019-5778: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A missing case for handling special schemes in permission request checks in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass extension permission checks for privileged pages via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only
• Google Chrome: before 72.0.3626.81 (fixed in 72.0.3626.81)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2019-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.