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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2018-6139 json

Insufficient target checks on the chrome.debugger API in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed an attacker who convinced…

published 2019-01-09 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-17902

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Insufficient target checks on the chrome.debugger API in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 67.0.3396.62
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6139

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 67.0.3396.62-2.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:1815

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1

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

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-2018-6139 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: Restrictions bypass in the debugger extension API

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 67.0.3396.62-2.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 67.0.3396.62-2.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 67.0.3396.62-2.el6_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1815

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

1.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
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References

Sources

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