CVE-2018-16079 Race condition in Chrome

What is CVE-2018-16079?

CVE-2018-16079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 9 Jan 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A race condition between permission prompts and navigations in Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-16079?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2018-16079?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-16079 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16079 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m25p-grqc-cm46, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16079.