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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.