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CVE-2024-4671

Google Chromium Visuals Use-After-Free Vulnerability

KEVCRITICAL 9.6EPSS 8.35%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 3 June 2024). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

Use after free in Visuals in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.201 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

CVSS 3.1
9.6 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
8.35% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed 13 May 2024 · due 3 June 2024
Weakness
CWE-416
Affected
google/chrome · fedoraproject/fedora
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/2024/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html?m=1; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4671

References

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