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CVE-2018-17468

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-17468 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 70.0.3538.67, specifically within the Blink rendering engine's handling of timer information during navigation. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to obtain cross-origin URLs through a specially crafted HTML page, affecting products like Debian and Red Hat. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), the attack requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high confidentiality impact (C:H). While not on the KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness despite no active exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 70.0.3538.67CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0151 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-17468Moderate

chromium-browser: Cross-origin URL disclosure in Blink

Oct 16, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3004
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2018/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 876822
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201811-10
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4330
securityfocus.com / bid/105666