CVE-2018-6147 (GCVE-0-2018-6147)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-09 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:54
VLAI
Summary
Lack of secure text entry mode in Browser UI in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a local process.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Insufficient policy enforcement
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/05/sta… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041014 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1815 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://crbug.com/818133 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4237 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 67.0.3396.62 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-01-09 00:00
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Taxonomy of the tags.





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.



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.