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CVE-2018-6099

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-6099 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Google Chrome prior to version 66.0.3359.117, as well as Debian and Red Hat distributions. It stems from a lack of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) checks in the Blink rendering engine, allowing a remote attacker to leak limited cross-origin data through a specially crafted HTML page. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a high impact on confidentiality with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit or Nuclei, or entries in ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, with only one mention and one article identified.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0160 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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-0:66.0.3359.117-1.el6_9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-6099Moderate

chromium-browser: CORS bypass in ServiceWorker

Apr 17, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1195
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2018/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 808825
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201804-22
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4182
securityfocus.com / bid/103917