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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-18358 Insufficient policy enforcement in Proxy

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-18358 Insufficient policy enforcement in Proxy

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/11/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/04/2019
Modified
11/08/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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