Authentication Bypass Affecting chromium package, versions [,70.0.3538.67)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.85% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409012
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-17473  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 70.0.3538.67 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. Incorrect handling of confusable characters in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 70.0.3538.67 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted domain name.

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