CVE-2019-5838: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.80 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass restrictions on file URIs via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only
• Google Chrome: before 75.0.3770.80 (fixed in 75.0.3770.80)
• Opensuse Backports: version sle-15 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only; version 42.3 only

Published 2019-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.