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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6101 Insufficient protection of remote debugging prototol in DevTools

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6101 Insufficient protection of remote debugging prototol in DevTools

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/04/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/21/2018
Modified
04/19/2024

Description

A lack of host validation in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page, if the user is running a remote DevTools debugging server.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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