CVE-2025-6179

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2025-6179 · Published 16/06/2025 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2025-6179 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.22%, higher than 12.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
—	No affected product versions are listed for this vulnerability yet.

Description

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.

References

issues.chromium.org/issues/b/399652193 · Broken Link
issuetracker.google.com/issues/399652193 · Exploit

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