CVE-2024-5842
Use after free in Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.48%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Use after free in Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 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
- 0.48% probability · 40th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- google/chrome · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40062622Permissions Required
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7VXA32LXMNK3DSK3JBRLTBPFUH7LTODU/Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MPU7AB53QQVNTBPGRMJRY5SXJNYWW3FX/Third Party Advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40062622Permissions Required
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7VXA32LXMNK3DSK3JBRLTBPFUH7LTODU/Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MPU7AB53QQVNTBPGRMJRY5SXJNYWW3FX/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.