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CVE-2018-6080 (GCVE-0-2018-6080)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-14 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:54
VLAI
Summary
Lack of access control checks in Instrumentation in Google Chrome prior to 65.0.3325.146 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to obtain memory metadata from privileged processes .
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Insufficient policy enforcement
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://crbug.com/792028 x_refsource_MISC
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/03/sta… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103297 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0484 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4182 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 65.0.3325.146 (custom)
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Date Public
2018-11-14 00:00
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