CVE-2018-6079 — Inappropriate sharing of TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY/TEXTURE_3D data between tabs in WebGL

Inappropriate sharing of TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY/TEXTURE_3D data between tabs in WebGL in Google Chrome prior to 65.0.3325.146 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page.

01What is this vulnerability?

Inappropriate sharing of TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY/TEXTURE_3D data between tabs in WebGL in Google Chrome prior to 65.0.3325.146 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data 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: 2018-11-14T15:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T05:54:52.890Z

09References

• crbug.com — https://crbug.com/788448
• chromereleases.googleblog.com — https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.…
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103297
• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0484
• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4182