CVE-2018-16079: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 69.0.3497.81 (fixed in 69.0.3497.81)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2019-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.