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CVE-2018-6133
Incorrect handling of confusable characters in URL Formatter in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed a remote attacker to perform…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Chrome
Description
Incorrect handling of confusable characters in URL Formatter in Google Chrome prior to 67.0.3396.62 allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs via a crafted domain name.
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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Insufficient policy enforcement
- CWE-19 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-19 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (6)
- 104309 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_58.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1041014 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1815 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/817247 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4237 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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)
- 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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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-6133)Record last updated .