CVE-2018-6043

high

Description

Insufficient data validation in External Protocol Handler in Google Chrome prior to 64.0.3282.119 allowed a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary programs on user machine via a crafted HTML page.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102797

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040282

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0265

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html

https://crbug.com/785809

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4103

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-09-25

Updated: 2018-11-15

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: HIGH