crxmon

WIP - scripts for analyzing the (in)security of Chrome extensions (by milesrichardson)

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  • Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Mar 2024
    > How is this even possible that Google allows this? Is this really true?

    Yes, you only need to upload the key (meaning, include a `key.pem` in your packed zip file) on first upload. [0]

    However, I'm not sure if Google will allow you to upload with a _different_ key. Since the extension would change, I'm not sure what would happen, both to the webstore page (does the previous one 301 to the new one?) and to existing extensions (do they stop auto-updating?).

    > This weekend Chrome decided to disable all these extensions on just one machine

    There is a trick for this, if you are loading an unpacked extension. Simply edit `manifest.json` in the unpacked extension directory, to add a `"key": ""`. You can do this with any extension from the store, since you can extract the public key from a .crx file [1]. When you load an extension this way, the ID will be the same as the "real" extension.

    [0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...

    [1] https://github.com/milesrichardson/crxmon/blob/4dae445b05b76...

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The primary programming language of crxmon is TypeScript.


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