CVE-2024-3173 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Insufficient data validation in Updater in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.62 allowed a remote attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: High)

Published: 2024-07-16

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Google

Chrome

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`120.0.6099.62`	affected	< 120.0.6099.62

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00504.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40075849

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00075}`	epss `{'score': 0.00159}`

Subscriptions

Google Chrome

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2024-07-16T22:14:03.372Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:05:07.040Z

Reserved: 2024-04-01T22:45:51.664Z

Link: CVE-2024-3173

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:05:07.040Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-07-16T23:15:24.027

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:29:04.353

Link: CVE-2024-3173

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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