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CVE-2018-18341

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-18341 is a high-severity integer overflow vulnerability in the Blink rendering engine of Google Chrome prior to version 71.0.3578.80, affecting products like Debian and Red Hat. This flaw could lead to a heap buffer overflow, allowing a remote attacker to achieve heap corruption through a specially crafted HTML page. With a CVSS score of 8.8, it presents a high risk due to its network-based attack vector and potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0147 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: chromium-browser-0:71.0.3578.80-1.el6_10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-18341Important

chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Blink

Dec 4, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3803
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 901030
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201908-18
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4352
securityfocus.com / bid/106084