CVE-2024-4761highunder attackCWE-787

CVE-2024-4761: high-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome

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76Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA and has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Actcvss 8.3epss 11%
from disclosure to weaponsame day
Published on NVDMay 14
1st PoCMay 14
CISA KEV+2d
What the vendors declare (VEX)

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Affected
1 product (2 components)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
workaround: Until updated packages are released for Fedora and EPEL, consider temporarily swapping to an alternative web browser such as Firefox or severely restricting activity to sites you know well and trust.
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2024-06-06

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

In short

A flaw in Google Chrome's V8 engine allows attackers to write data outside intended memory boundaries through a malicious webpage, potentially enabling code execution or system compromise.

Technical detail

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability in V8 (CWE-787) exploitable via crafted HTML; requires user to visit a malicious page; can lead to arbitrary code execution with renderer process privileges. Affects Chrome versions prior to 124.0.6367.207.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.

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Out of bounds write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.207 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Google · Chrome
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