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CVE-2018-16079 (GCVE-0-2018-16079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-09 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:17
VLAI
Summary
A race condition between permission prompts and navigations in Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Race
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105215 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2666 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/09/sta… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-10 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://crbug.com/723503 x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 69.0.3497.81 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-01-09 00:00
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