PT-2018-2549 · Google+3 · Google Chrome+3

Evil1M0 · Published 2018-12-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-18355

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 71.0.3578.80

Description The issue is related to the incorrect handling of confusable characters in the URL Formatter component of Google Chrome, allowing a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a manipulated domain name. This can be achieved by exploiting errors in the processing of special symbols, enabling the attacker to fake the address bar content.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 71.0.3578.80, update to version 71.0.3578.80 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2879

BDU:2019-00962

CVE-2018-18355

DSA-4352-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:4143-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4056-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4142-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2018:3803

RHSA-2018_3803

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2331

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18355 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18355 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-00962 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4352 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-18355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:4143-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4352-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18355 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18355 · Vendor Advisory