Race condition in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6033

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Race condition in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6033

Published: January 25, 2018 / Updated: June 6, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10231
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6033
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to race condition when opening downloaded files. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file, trigger race condition and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.


Affected software

Google Chrome
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
qt5-qtwebengine

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6033

Update to version 64.0.3282.119.

Google Chrome - update to 64.0.3282.119
qt5-qtwebengine - addressed in versions 5.10.1-1.fc26, 5.10.1-1.fc27, 5.10.1-4.fc26, 5.10.1-4.fc27, 5.10.1-4.fc28

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