CVE-2018-6084 (GCVE-0-2018-6084)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-09 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:54
VLAI
Summary
Insufficiently sanitized distributed objects in Updater in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via an executable file.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Insufficient data validation
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44307/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103468 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://crbug.com/822424 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103917 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 66.0.3359.117 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-01-09 00:00
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