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medium 6.5

CVE-2018-17459 json

Incorrect handling of clicks in the omnibox in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.92 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the con…

published 2019-01-09 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-9212

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Incorrect handling of clicks in the omnibox in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.92 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 69.0.3497.92
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 70.0.3538.67-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 70.0.3538.67-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17459

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 69.0.3497.100-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2818

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-17459 updated cvss 5.3

chromium-browser: URL Spoofing in Omnibox

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 69.0.3497.100-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 69.0.3497.100-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 69.0.3497.100-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2818

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

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References

Sources

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