CVE-2018-6140
Allowing the chrome.debugger API to attach to Web UI pages in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute
02 Description
Allowing the chrome.debugger API to attach to Web UI pages in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-01-09 19:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 05:54Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-01-23
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 190450606b398a62fea01e5d687bd6628024bec5cd8593ff6ee1f6dd59b74de5
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com104309http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104309
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_58.html
- www.securitytracker.com1041014http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041014
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:1815https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1815
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/798222
- www.debian.orgDSA-4237https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4237
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
- oxide-qt No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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