Google Chrome up to 52.x information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Google Chrome up to 52.x. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2018-6052. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Google Chrome up to 52.x (Web Browser). Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 01/24/2018. The weakness was disclosed 01/24/2018 by Masato Kinugawa (Paul) with Tencent (Website). The advisory is shared for download at chromereleases.googleblog.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-6052 since 01/23/2018. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 106486 (Google Chrome < 64.0.3282.119 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370741 (Google Chrome Prior to 64.0.3282.119 Multiple Vulnerabilites.).

Upgrading to version 53.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (106486), SecurityFocus (BID 102797†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1040282†). The entries VDB-112550, VDB-112551, VDB-112552 and VDB-112553 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.2

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

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Nessus ID: 106486
Nessus Name: Google Chrome < 64.0.3282.119 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)
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OpenVAS ID: 64134
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for qt5-qtwebengine FEDORA-2018-e08d828ed9
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Chrome 53.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: google.com
Product: google.com

Advisory: RHSA-2018:0265
Researcher: Masato Kinugawa (Paul)
Organization: Tencent
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2018-6052 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-6052
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-112572

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SecurityFocus: 102797 - Google Chrome Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1040282

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/28/2018 10:38
Updated: 02/03/2023 08:34
Changes: 01/28/2018 10:38 (77), 12/30/2019 16:11 (11), 02/03/2023 08:34 (4)
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