Incorrect security UI in Omnibox in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnib…

published 2019-12-10 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-5159

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits: 0; none known

Incorrect security UI in Omnibox in Google Chrome on iOS prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted domain name.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 4

Google Chrome 79.0.3945.79

debian red hat opensuse arch linux

chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 79.0.3945.79-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13742

chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:4238

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
chromium Package Hub 15 SP1 79.0.3945.79-bp151.3.35.1
chromium Package Hub 15, Package Hub 12 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.1 79.0.3945.79-bp150.252.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:2694-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:2692-1

chromium Arch Linux 79.0.3945.79-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1076

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-2019-13742 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in Omnibox

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 79.0.3945.79-1.el6_10
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:4238

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Exploit prediction

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/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

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2019:4238
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00032.html
vendor-advisory, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2Z5M4FPUMDNX2LDPHJKN5ZV5GIS2AKNU/
vendor-advisory
lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00036.html
vendor-advisory, mailing-list, third-party-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N5CIQCVS6E3ULJCNU7YJXJPO2BLQZDTK/
vendor-advisory
debian.org /security/2020/dsa-4606
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202003-08
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2019/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
vendor-advisory
crbug.com /1017564
permissions-required, vendor-advisory
seclists.org /bugtraq/2020/Jan/27
mailing-list, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-13742
NVD CVE-2019-13742

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Summary