CVE-2023-4367 (GCVE-0-2023-4367)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-15 17:07 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:13
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.96 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass an enterprise policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-01 19:36 UTC
CWE
- Insufficient policy enforcement
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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