CVE-2018-6084
Insufficiently sanitized distributed objects in Updater in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a local attacker to…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 34% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Insufficiently sanitized distributed objects in Updater in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via an executable file.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Google Software Updater macOS - Unsafe use of Distributed Objects Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44307local, macospublished 20 Mar 2018Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44307 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
References
5
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 44307 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 103468 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/822424 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 103917 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-17847 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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