CVE-2018-18358 (GCVE-0-2018-18358)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-11 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:08
VLAI
Summary
Lack of special casing of localhost in WPAD files in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed an attacker on the local network segment to proxy resources on localhost via a crafted WPAD file.
Severity
5.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Insufficient policy enforcement
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://crbug.com/899126 x_refsource_MISC
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/sta… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3803 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4352 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106084 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 71.0.3578.80 (custom)
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Date Public
2018-12-11 00:00
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