The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5949-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Chromium could be made to write out of bounds in several components. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page, resulting in a denial of     service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0930, CVE-2023-1219, CVE-2023-1220, CVE-2023-1222)

    It was discovered that Chromium contained an integer overflow in the PDF component. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted PDF file, resulting in a denial of service,     or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0933)

    It was discovered that Chromium did not properly manage memory in several components. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page, resulting in a denial of service,     or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0941, CVE-2023-0928, CVE-2023-0929, CVE-2023-0931,     CVE-2023-1213, CVE-2023-1216, CVE-2023-1218)

    It was discovered that Chromium did not correctly distinguish data types in several components. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page, resulting in a denial of     service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-1214, CVE-2023-1215, CVE-2023-1235)

    It was discovered that Chromium insufficiently enforced policies. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to bypass navigation restrictions. (CVE-2023-1221, CVE-2023-1224)

    It was discovered that Chromium insufficiently enforced policies in Web Payments API. A remote attacker     could possibly use this issue to bypass content security policy via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2023-1226)

    It was discovered that Chromium contained an inappropriate implementation in the Permission prompts     component. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted     HTML page. (CVE-2023-1229)

    It was discovered that Chromium insufficiently enforced policies in Resource Timing component. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-1232, CVE-2023-1233)

    It was discovered that Chromium contained an inappropriate implementation in the Internals component. A     remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof the origin of an iframe via a crafted HTML page.
    (CVE-2023-1236)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Chromium vulnerabilities (USN-5949-1)

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Version 1.7 Aug 29, 2024, 7:18 AM CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-1222" to none) Plugin Feed: 202408290718
Version 1.6 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2023-1222") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.5 Oct 24, 2023, 4:27 PM CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-0941" to "CVE-2023-1222") CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-1222" to "None") Plugin Feed: 202310241627
Version 1.4 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.3 Apr 11, 2023, 4:07 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-1218" to "CVE-2023-0941") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202304111607
Version 1.2 Mar 31, 2023, 10:15 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202303311015
Version 1.1 Mar 17, 2023, 6:00 PM IAVM reference STIG Severity (set to "I") Plugin Feed: 202303171800
Version 1.0 Mar 14, 2023, 4:04 PM New Plugin Feed: 202303141604