CVE-2024-6998 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Use after free in User Education in Google Chrome prior to 127.0.6533.72 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Published: 2024-08-06

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
`127.0.6533.72`	affected	< 127.0.6533.72

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-5735-1	chromium security update

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 0.00516.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_23.html
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/340098902

History

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Google Google chrome
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome::::::::
Vendors & Products		Google Google chrome
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Google Chrome

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2024-08-06T15:37:25.110Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T17:38:50.114Z

Reserved: 2024-07-22T23:32:39.942Z

Link: CVE-2024-6998

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T17:37:25.033Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-08-06T16:15:50.427

Modified: 2024-08-07T19:52:06.273

Link: CVE-2024-6998

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-416

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