Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Jan 9, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-16079

Description

A race condition between permission prompts and navigations in Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.

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Affected products

Google/Chromellm-fuzzy2 versions
<69.0.3497.81+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <69.0.3497.81
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 93.0.4577.82-1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/105215nvd
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2666nvd
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlnvd
crbug.com/723503nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-10nvd

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