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Improper Access Control

CVE-2021-21185

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.72 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain sensitive information via a crafted Chrome Extension.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published