Privilege escalation in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6044

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Privilege escalation in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6044

Published: July 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14030
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6044
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local atacaker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to unspecified flaw. A local attacker can use specially crafted extensions and gain elevated privileges to conduct further attacks.

Affected software

Google Chrome
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6044

Update to version 68.0.3440.75.

Google Chrome - update to 68.0.3440.75
chromium - addressed in versions 68.0.3440.106-3.el7, 68.0.3440.106-3.fc27, 68.0.3440.106-3.fc28

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