Google Chrome prior 67.0.3396.62 Browser UI information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Google Chrome (Web Browser). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Browser UI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Lack of secure text entry mode in Browser UI in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a local process.

The bug was discovered 05/29/2018. The weakness was published 01/09/2019 by Natalie Silvanovich with Google Project Zero (Website). The advisory is shared for download at debian.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-6147 since 01/23/2018. The attack needs to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 110254 (FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (427b0f58-644c-11e8-9e1b-e8e0b747a45a)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 277340 (Fedora Security Update for chromium (FEDORA-2018-7c80aaef26)).

Upgrading to version 67.0.3396.62 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (110254) and SecurityFocus (BID 104309†).

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.3

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 110254
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (427b0f58-644c-11e8-9e1b-e8e0b747a45a)
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OpenVAS ID: 66169
OpenVAS Name: Google Chrome Security Updates(stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29-2018-05)-Windows
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Chrome 67.0.3396.62

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01/23/2018 🔍
05/29/2018 +126 days 🔍
05/29/2018 +0 days 🔍
05/30/2018 +1 days 🔍
05/31/2018 +1 days 🔍
01/09/2019 +223 days 🔍
01/09/2019 +0 days 🔍
01/10/2019 +1 days 🔍
06/26/2023 +1628 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: google.com
Product: google.com

Advisory: RHSA-2018:1815
Researcher: Natalie Silvanovich
Organization: Google Project Zero
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-6147 (🔍)
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SecurityFocus: 104309 - Google Chrome Prior to 67.0.3396.62 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1041014

Entryinfo

Created: 01/10/2019 09:34 PM
Updated: 06/26/2023 06:57 AM
Changes: 01/10/2019 09:34 PM (79), 04/28/2020 09:44 AM (5), 06/26/2023 06:57 AM (5)
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Cache ID: 44:F78:40

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