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Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

CVE-2024-7979

High
7.8/10

Summary

Insufficient data validation in Installer in Google Chrome on Windows versions prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted symbolic link. This has the same fix as CVE-2024-7977.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

The software does not sufficiently verify the origin or authenticity of data, in a way that causes it to accept invalid data.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published