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CVE-2018-6152

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-6152 is a critical vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 66.0.3359.117, affecting Debian, Google, and Red Hat distributions. It allowed a malicious extension to perform a sandbox escape by exploiting an unconditional "safe" marking of downloaded files, regardless of their actual content. With a CVSS score of 9.6 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and requires user interaction, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 11 mentions, indicating notable interest.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 66.0.3359.106CPE 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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.6CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0132 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 836 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 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-0:68.0.3440.75-1.el6_10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-6152Moderate

chromium-browser: Local file write in DevTools

Jul 24, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2282
chromereleases.googleblog.com / 2018/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com / 805445
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201808-01
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4256
securityfocus.com / bid/104887