PT-2018-3216 · Google+3 · Google Chrome+3

Khalil Zhani · Published 2018-10-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-17473

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 70.0.3538.67

Description The issue exists due to insufficient input validation, allowing a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a specially crafted domain name. This is related to incorrect handling of confusable characters in the Omnibox.

Recommendations For versions prior to 70.0.3538.67, update to version 70.0.3538.67 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to potentially malicious domains to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2599

BDU:2019-04361

CVE-2018-17473

DSA-4330-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:3835-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3273-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3396-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2018:3004

RHSA-2018_3004

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2331

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3004 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44892734 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17473 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17473 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4330 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-04361 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4330-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17473 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17473 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17473 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:3835-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21192 · Note