CVE-2018-6084 Code injection in Chrome

What is CVE-2018-6084?

CVE-2018-6084 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Jan 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Insufficiently sanitized distributed objects in Updater in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via an executable file.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6084?

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-2018-6084?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2018-6084 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2018-6084 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9q37-frcq-v33g.