Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-6176 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Google Chrome

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
google
CWE-20
nessus
NVD
Published: 2019-06-27
Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

Insufficient file type enforcement in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to perform privilege escalation via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Google
3879

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

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    titleFreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (b9c525d9-9198-11e8-beba-080027ef1a23)
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    descriptionUpdate to Chromium 68. Security fix for CVE-2018-4117 CVE-2018-6044 CVE-2018-6150 CVE-2018-6151 CVE-2018-6152 CVE-2018-6153 CVE-2018-6154 CVE-2018-6155 CVE-2018-6156 CVE-2018-6157 CVE-2018-6158 CVE-2018-6159 CVE-2018-6161 CVE-2018-6162 CVE-2018-6163 CVE-2018-6149 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
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    descriptionThis update for Chromium to version 68.0.3440.75 fixes multiple issues. Security issues fixed (boo#1102530) : - CVE-2018-6153: Stack-based buffer overflow in Skia - CVE-2018-6154: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL - CVE-2018-6155: Use after free in WebRTC - CVE-2018-6156: Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC - CVE-2018-6157: Type confusion in WebRTC - CVE-2018-6158: Use after free in Blink - CVE-2018-6159: Same origin policy bypass in ServiceWorker - CVE-2018-6161: Same origin policy bypass in WebAudio - CVE-2018-6162: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL - CVE-2018-6163: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6164: Same origin policy bypass in ServiceWorker - CVE-2018-6165: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6166: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6167: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6168: CORS bypass in Blink - CVE-2018-6169: Permissions bypass in extension installation - CVE-2018-6170: Type confusion in PDFium - CVE-2018-6171: Use after free in WebBluetooth - CVE-2018-6172: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6173: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6174: Integer overflow in SwiftShader - CVE-2018-6175: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6176: Local user privilege escalation in Extensions - CVE-2018-6177: Cross origin information leak in Blink - CVE-2018-6178: UI spoof in Extensions - CVE-2018-6179: Local file information leak in Extensions - CVE-2018-6044: Request privilege escalation in Extensions - CVE-2018-4117: Cross origin information leak in Blink The following user interface changes are included : - Chrome will show the
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    titleopenSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2019-559)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
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    descriptionThis update for Chromium to version 68.0.3440.75 fixes multiple issues. Security issues fixed (boo#1102530) : - CVE-2018-6153: Stack-based buffer overflow in Skia - CVE-2018-6154: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL - CVE-2018-6155: Use after free in WebRTC - CVE-2018-6156: Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC - CVE-2018-6157: Type confusion in WebRTC - CVE-2018-6158: Use after free in Blink - CVE-2018-6159: Same origin policy bypass in ServiceWorker - CVE-2018-6161: Same origin policy bypass in WebAudio - CVE-2018-6162: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL - CVE-2018-6163: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6164: Same origin policy bypass in ServiceWorker - CVE-2018-6165: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6166: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6167: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6168: CORS bypass in Blink - CVE-2018-6169: Permissions bypass in extension installation - CVE-2018-6170: Type confusion in PDFium - CVE-2018-6171: Use after free in WebBluetooth - CVE-2018-6172: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6173: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6174: Integer overflow in SwiftShader - CVE-2018-6175: URL spoof in Omnibox - CVE-2018-6176: Local user privilege escalation in Extensions - CVE-2018-6177: Cross origin information leak in Blink - CVE-2018-6178: UI spoof in Extensions - CVE-2018-6179: Local file information leak in Extensions - CVE-2018-6044: Request privilege escalation in Extensions - CVE-2018-4117: Cross origin information leak in Blink The following user interface changes are included : - Chrome will show the
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    titleopenSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2018-780)
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2018-2282.NASL
    descriptionAn update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink). This update upgrades Chromium to version 68.0.3440.75. Security Fix(es) : * chromium-browser: Stack buffer overflow in Skia (CVE-2018-6153) * chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2018-6154) * chromium-browser: Use after free in WebRTC (CVE-2018-6155) * chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC (CVE-2018-6156) * chromium-browser: Type confusion in WebRTC (CVE-2018-6157) * chromium-browser: Cross origin information disclosure in Service Workers (CVE-2018-6150) * chromium-browser: Bad cast in DevTools (CVE-2018-6151) * chromium-browser: Local file write in DevTools (CVE-2018-6152) * chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink (CVE-2018-6158) * chromium-browser: Same origin policy bypass in ServiceWorker (CVE-2018-6159) * chromium-browser: Same origin policy bypass in WebAudio (CVE-2018-6161) * chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2018-6162) * chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-6163) * chromium-browser: Same origin policy bypass in ServiceWorker (CVE-2018-6164) * chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-6165) * chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-6166) * chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-6167) * chromium-browser: CORS bypass in Blink (CVE-2018-6168) * chromium-browser: Permissions bypass in extension installation (CVE-2018-6169) * chromium-browser: Type confusion in PDFium (CVE-2018-6170) * chromium-browser: Use after free in WebBluetooth (CVE-2018-6171) * chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-6172) * chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-6173) * chromium-browser: Integer overflow in SwiftShader (CVE-2018-6174) * chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-6175) * chromium-browser: Local user privilege escalation in Extensions (CVE-2018-6176) * chromium-browser: Cross origin information leak in Blink (CVE-2018-4117) * chromium-browser: Request privilege escalation in Extensions (CVE-2018-6044) * chromium-browser: Cross origin information leak in Blink (CVE-2018-6177) * chromium-browser: UI spoof in Extensions (CVE-2018-6178) * chromium-browser: Local file information leak in Extensions (CVE-2018-6179) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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    titleRHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2018:2282)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
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    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201808-01 (Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and Google Chrome. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers and Google Chrome Releases for details. Impact : A remote attacker could escalate privileges, cause a heap buffer overflow, obtain sensitive information or spoof a URL. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
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    titleGLSA-201808-01 : Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities
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Redhat

rpms
  • chromium-browser-0:68.0.3440.75-1.el6_10
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-0:68.0.3440.75-1.el6_10

References