Cross-site scripting in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6081
Published: April 5, 2018 / Updated: June 11, 2021
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The weakness exists in interstitials due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
SUSE Linux
Fedora
qt5-qtwebengine
www-client/chromium
www-client/google-chrome
How to mitigate CVE-2018-6081
qt5-qtwebengine - addressed in versions 5.10.1-4.fc26, 5.10.1-4.fc27, 5.10.1-4.fc28
www-client/chromium - update to 65.0.3325.146
www-client/google-chrome - update to 65.0.3325.146
External References
Related Security Bulletins
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
- OpenSUSE Linux update for Chromium
- Debian update for chromium-browser
- OpenSUSE Linux update for Chromium
- SUSE Linux update for chromium
- Red Hat update for chromium-browser
- Gentoo update for Chromium, Google Chrome
- Fedora 26 update for qt5-qtwebengine
- Fedora 28 update for qt5-qtwebengine
- Fedora 27 update for qt5-qtwebengine