High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 9, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-6140

Description

Allowing the chrome.debugger API to attach to Web UI pages in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Chrome Extension.

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Affected products

Google/Chromellm-fuzzy2 versions
<67.0.3396.62+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <67.0.3396.62
- (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/104309nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1041014nvd
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1815nvd
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_58.htmlnvd
crbug.com/798222nvd
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4237nvd

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