CVE-2018-16079 — A race condition between permission prompts and navigations in Prompts in Google

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google	Chrome	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-01-09T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:17:36.992Z

09References

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