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CVE-2024-5274

Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability

KEVCRITICAL 9.6EPSS 7.73%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 18 June 2024). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.112 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox 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: 7.73% probability · 95th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Listed 28 May 2024 · due 18 June 2024
Weakness: CWE-843
Affected: google/chrome · fedoraproject/fedora
Source: chrome-cve-admin@google.com

EPSS trend

EPSS 7.7% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

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_23.html?m=1; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5274

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.