CVE-2018-6115 Security feature bypass in Chrome

What is CVE-2018-6115?

CVE-2018-6115 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 4 Dec 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

Inappropriate setting of the SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI flag in file downloads in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to potentially bypass OS malware checks via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6115?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2018-6115?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-6115 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6115 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome

• CVE-2022-4135 Google Chromium GPU Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16017 Google Chrome Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-16010 Google Chrome for Android UI Heap Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Google Chrome vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-88x6-h36j-mqgw, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6115.