CVE-2025-6179 (GCVE-0-2025-6179)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-16 16:56
Modified
2025-06-17 14:01
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Permissions Bypass / Privilege Escalation
Summary
Permissions Bypass in Extension Management in Google ChromeOS 16181.27.0 on managed Chrome devices allows a local attacker to disable extensions and access Developer Mode, including loading additional extensions via exploiting vulnerabilities using the ExtHang3r and ExtPrint3r tools.
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