Lack of support for a non standard no-referrer policy value in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 64.0.3282.119 allowed a remote attacker to o…

published 2018-09-25 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-17815

cvss: 4.3; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.3%; EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits: 0; none known

Lack of support for a non standard no-referrer policy value in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 64.0.3282.119 allowed a remote attacker to obtain referrer details from a web page that had thought it had opted out of sending referrer data.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3

Google Chrome 64.0.3282.119

ubuntu red hat opensuse

chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64.0.3282.119-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64.0.3282.119-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64.0.3282.119-0ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6052

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chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:0265

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
chromium Package Hub 12 SP2, Package Hub 12 64.0.3282.119-46.2
re2 Package Hub 12 SP2, Package Hub 12 20180101-5.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 openSUSE-SU-2018:0313-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-6052 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 4.3

chromium-browser: incomplete no-referrer policy implementation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 64.0.3282.119-1.el6_9
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0265

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Exploit prediction

1.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

debian.org /security/2018/dsa-4103
vendor-advisory
access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2018:0265
vendor-advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2018/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html
securityfocus.com /bid/102797
vdb-entry
crbug.com /615608
securitytracker.com /id/1040282
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-6052
NVD CVE-2018-6052

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary