CVE-2018-16075 describes an insufficient file type enforcement vulnerability in Google Chrome's Blink rendering engine, affecting versions prior to 69.0.3497.81. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page, potentially leading to the disclosure of local file data. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) requires user interaction and has high confidentiality impact, but no integrity or availability impact. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 69.0.3497.81CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.