CVE-2018-20067 — A renderer initiated back navigation was incorrectly allowed to cancel a browser initiated one in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker to confuse the user about the origin of the current page via a crafted HTML page

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A renderer initiated back navigation was incorrectly allowed to cancel a browser initiated one in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker to confuse the user about the origin of the current page via a crafted HTML page

Published Jan 9, 2019

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.47%

Description

A renderer initiated back navigation was incorrectly allowed to cancel a browser initiated one in Navigation in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker to confuse the user about the origin of the current page via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Vendor Google Product Chrome Default
n/a
- Version
  unspecified
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <71.0.3578.80

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Google

Chrome

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
unspecified	affected	<71.0.3578.80

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.47% 0.00471

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00471

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (9 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.47% (0.00471)	38.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	0.47% (0.00471)	39.87th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.11% (0.00109)	44.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	0.11% (0.00109)	43.82th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.14% (0.00144)	48.49th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.34% (0.00344)	3.23th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.34% (0.00344)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://crbug.com/879965
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://crbug.com/879965		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner Chrome

Published Jan 9, 2019

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Dec 11, 2018

Link CVE-2018-20067

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2018-20067

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2018-20067