CVE-2018-18358

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

Lack of special casing of localhost in WPAD files in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed an attacker on the local network segment to proxy resources on localhost via a crafted WPAD file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 71.0.3578.80-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 71.0.3578.80-1
sid Fixed 71.0.3578.80-1
forky Fixed 71.0.3578.80-1
bullseye Fixed 71.0.3578.80-1
bookworm Fixed 71.0.3578.80-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.