CVE-2018-6121

chromium-browser: Privilege Escalation in extensions

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Insufficient validation of input in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.170 allowed a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page.

La validación insuficiente de la entrada en Blink en Google Chrome antes de 66.0.3359.170 permitió a un atacante remoto realizar una escalada de privilegios a través de una página HTML diseñada.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-01-23 CVE Reserved
2018-05-15 CVE Published
2023-11-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html	X_refsource_misc
https://crbug.com/836858	X_refsource_misc

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6121	2018-05-14
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577113	2018-05-14

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Google Search vendor "Google"		Chrome Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome"				< 66.0.3359.170 Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome" and version " < 66.0.3359.170"		-		Affected