CVE-2024-7971
Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 16 September 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 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption 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
- 21.01% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 26 August 2024 · due 16 September 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-843
- Affected
- google/chrome · microsoft/edge
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
EPSS 21.0% 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/2024/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7971
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.htmlRelease Notes
- https://issues.chromium.org/issues/360700873Permissions Required
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/30/north-korean-threat-actor-citrine-sleet-exploiting-chromium-zero-day/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-7971US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.