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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2018-6045 json

Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 64.0.3282.119 allowed a remote attacker to potentially leak user loca…

published 2018-09-25 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-17808

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insufficient policy enforcement in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 64.0.3282.119 allowed a remote attacker to potentially leak user local file data via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 64.0.3282.119
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64.0.3282.119-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64.0.3282.119-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64.0.3282.119-0ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6045

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 64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:0265

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 SP2, Package Hub 12 64.0.3282.119-46.2
  • re2 Package Hub 12 SP2, Package Hub 12 20180101-5.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2018:0313-1

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-2018-6045 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: insufficient isolation of devtools from extensions

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0265

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

1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% 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:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.