CVE-2020-6472

Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory or disk via a crafted Chrome Extension...

The vulnerability of the WebBluetooth component in Google Chrome allows a malicious actor to initiate the installation of a malicious Chrome extension and gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the WebBluetooth component in Google Chrome browser relates to the use of memory after it is freed. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to initiate the installation of malicious Chrome extensions and gain unauthorized access to protected information...

The vulnerability of Google Chrome lies in the lack of a timeout mechanism for the installation of Chrome extensions. This allows attackers to initiate the installation of malicious Chrome extensions.

The vulnerability of Google Chrome lies in the absence of a timeout for the extension installation process. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to initiate the installation of malicious Chrome extensions through a specially created HTML page...

CVE-2019-13705

Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to leak cross-origin data via a crafted Chrome Extension...

CVE-2007-6689

Menalto Gallery before 2.2.4 does not properly check for malicious file extensions during file uploads, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via the 1 Core application or 2 MIME module...

Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original — AdBlock and uBlock Origin — extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of millions of users to generate affiliate income from referral schemes fraudulently. There's no doubt web...

Mozilla Firefox has an unspecified vulnerability (CNVD-2019-17484)

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser from the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Mozilla Firefox prior to version 67. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to spoof pages and trick users into installing malicious extensions...

Google Cracks Down on Malicious Chrome Extensions in Major Update

Google on Monday announced major changes to its Chrome Web Store as the company tries to ax the malicious extensions that have continuously popped up on its platform over the years. The array of security improvements include a stricter extension review process, new code-readability requirements...

Grammarly: Permissive CORS policy trusting arbitrary extensions origin

@foobar7 identified that misconfigurations in CORS and CSRF handling allowed malicious browser extensions, which have permission to interact with grammarly.com domain, to impersonate the user. The vulnerability was resolved with improved CSRF/CORS handling...

chromium-browser: Local file access in DevTools

Allowing the chrome.debugger API to run on file:// URLs in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to access files on the local file system without file access permission via a crafted Chrome Extension...

Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Android Apps From the Play Store

Following Apple's lead in banning cryptocurrency mining apps, Google has also updated its Play Store policy this week to ban apps that mine cryptocurrencies on users' devices in the background. However, there are countless cryptocurrency mining apps, including MinerGate, AA Miner, NeoNeonMiner, a...

Python-Based Adware Evolves to Install Malicious Browser Extensions

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious browser extensions and hidden cryptocurrency miner into victims' computers. Dubbed PBot , or PythonBot ,...

Design/Logic Flaw

The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects...

CVE-2018-5116

WebExtensions with the "ActiveTab" permission are able to access frames hosted within the active tab even if the frames are cross-origin. Malicious extensions can inject frames from arbitrary origins into the loaded page and then interact with them, bypassing same-origin user expectations with th...

CVE-2017-5393

The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects...

Over 20 Million Users Installed Malicious Ad Blockers From Chrome Store

If you have installed any of the below-mentioned Ad blocker extension in your Chrome browser, you could have been hacked. A security researcher has spotted five malicious ad blockers extension in the Google Chrome Store that had already been installed by at least 20 million users. Unfortunately,...

Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Extensions From Chrome Web Store

In an effort to prevent cryptojacking by extensions that maliciously mine digital currencies without users' awareness, Google has implemented a new Web Store policy that bans any Chrome extension submitted to the Web Store that mines cryptocurrency. Over the past few months, we have seen a sudden...

Researchers Show How Popular Text Editors Can Be Attacked Via Third-Party Plugins

Security risks in popular extensible text editors allow hackers to abuse plugins and escalate privileges on targeted systems, according to new research from SafeBreach. Inadequate separation of regular and elevated access modes used in editors and a lack of folder permissions integrity allow...

USN-3596-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash or opening new tabs, escape the sandbox, bypass same-origin restrictions, obtain...

4 Malicious Chrome Extensions Put 500k Users at Risk of Click Fraud

By Waqas Presence of spyware and malware in Chrome browser extensions we use This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 4 Malicious Chrome Extensions Put 500k Users at Risk of Click Fraud...