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high 7.8

CVE-2018-6084 json

Insufficiently sanitized distributed objects in Updater in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a local attacker to execut…

published 2019-01-09 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-17847

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Insufficiently sanitized distributed objects in Updater in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via an executable file.

Patch / fix

  • Google Chrome 66.0.3359.117

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-2018-6084 updated cvss 4.3

chromium-browser: Incorrect use of Distributed Objects in Google Software Updater on MacOS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 chromium-browser
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-44307)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-44307 Google Software Updater macOS - Unsafe use of Distributed Objects Privilege Escalation local, 2018-03-20

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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