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CVE-2023-5217

Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

KEVHIGH 8.8EPSS 49.0%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 23 October 2023). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

CVSS 3.1
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
49.01% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed 2 October 2023 · due 23 October 2023
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
webmproject/libvpx · microsoft/edge · microsoft/edge chromium · mozilla/firefox · mozilla/thunderbird · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux · apple/ipados · apple/iphone os · google/chrome · redhat/enterprise linux
Source
chrome-cve-admin@google.com

CISA notes

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5217

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.