CVSS Meta Temp Score CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.	Current Exploit Price (≈) Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.	CTI Interest Score Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
6.2	$0-$5k	0.00

A vulnerability was found in Google Chrome (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component File Access. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (File). 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, integrity, and availability.

The bug was discovered 07/24/2018. The weakness was presented 01/09/2019 by Natalie Silvanovich with UC Berkeley (Website). The advisory is available at debian.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-6179 since 01/23/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/26/2023). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 111407 (FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (b9c525d9-9198-11e8-beba-080027ef1a23)), 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 277514 (Fedora Security Update for chromium (FEDORA-2018-499f2dbc96)).

Upgrading to version 68.0.3440.75 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 vulnerability database at Tenable (111407). See 115410, 119547, 127496 and 128918 for similar entries.

Productinfo

Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• Google

Name

• Chrome

License

• free

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.2

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 6.5
NVD Vector: 🔍

CVSSv2info

AV	AC	Au	C	I	A
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳

Vector	Complexity	Authentication	Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock
unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock
unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Name: File
Class: Information disclosure / File
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1592

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-Day	unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock
Today	unlock	unlock	unlock	unlock

Nessus ID: 111407
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (b9c525d9-9198-11e8-beba-080027ef1a23)
Nessus File: 🔍
Nessus Risk: 🔍
Nessus Family: 🔍
Nessus Context: 🔍

Qualys ID: 🔍
Qualys Name: 🔍

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Upgrade: Chrome 68.0.3440.75

Timelineinfo

01/23/2018 🔍
07/24/2018 +182 days 🔍
07/24/2018 +0 days 🔍
07/27/2018 +3 days 🔍
07/30/2018 +3 days 🔍
01/09/2019 +163 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-2018:2282
Researcher: Natalie Silvanovich
Organization: UC Berkeley
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2018-6179 (🔍)
OVAL: 🔍

SecurityFocus: 104887 - Google Chrome Prior to 68.0.3440.75 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

See also: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 01/10/2019 09:42 PM
Updated: 06/26/2023 08:24 AM
Changes: 01/10/2019 09:42 PM (80), 04/28/2020 11:20 AM (5), 06/26/2023 08:24 AM (4)
Complete: 🔍

Discussion

Do you want to use VulDB in your project?

Use the official API to access entries easily!