CVE-2018-6080 Information disclosure in Chrome

What is CVE-2018-6080?

CVE-2018-6080 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 14 Nov 2018. 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

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 .

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6080?

It affects 5 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2018-6080?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-6080 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6080 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux

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• CVE-2026-24061 GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-39682 Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-9680 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.8

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-rqpp-j6vh-gmhm, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6080.