CVE-2018-18337 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome's Blink rendering engine, affecting versions prior to 71.0.3578.80, as well as Debian and Red Hat distributions. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by tricking a user into visiting a crafted HTML page, potentially leading to heap corruption and arbitrary code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.8 and a FAUCET Risk Score of 73/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit modules available in Metasploit or Nuclei. Despite limited community discussion and media coverage, its high severity warrants attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 71.0.3578.80CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat: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:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.