CVE-2025-6179 is a critical permissions bypass vulnerability affecting Google ChromeOS 16181.27.0 on managed devices. A local attacker can exploit this flaw to disable extensions, access Developer Mode, and load additional extensions using tools like ExtHang3r and ExtPrint3r. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability poses a high risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness and potential interest among researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
16181.27.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:chrome_os:16181.27.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.