Improper Privilege Management Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.16.04.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.37% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-CHROMIUMBROWSER-413469
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed14 Nov 2018

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-6080  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 chromium-browser to version 65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Lack of access control checks in Instrumentation in Google Chrome prior to 65.0.3325.146 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to obtain memory metadata from privileged processes .