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CVE-2018-6048

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-6048 describes an insufficient policy enforcement vulnerability in Google Chrome's Blink rendering engine prior to version 64.0.3282.119, affecting Google Chrome, Debian, and Red Hat. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows a remote attacker to potentially leak referrer information through a crafted HTML page, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity and no integrity or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 64.0.3282.119CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0129 is in the 80th 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-0:64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-6048Low

chromium-browser: referrer policy bypass in blink

Jan 24, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:0265
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2018/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html
crbug.com / 763194
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4103
securityfocus.com / bid/102797
securitytracker.com / id/1040282