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CVE-2018-6033 (GCVE-0-2018-6033)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-25 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:54
VLAI
Summary
Insufficient data validation in Downloads in Google Chrome prior to 64.0.3282.119 allowed a remote attacker to potentially run arbitrary code outside sandbox via a crafted Chrome Extension.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Insufficient data validation
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/01/sta… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4103 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102797 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040282 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://crbug.com/793620 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0265 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 64.0.3282.119 (custom)
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Date Public
2018-01-24 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.