CVEs / CVE-2024-4671
CVE-2024-4671: Google Chromium Visuals Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- Known exploited in the CISA KEV catalog since 13 May 2024
- critical 9.6 CVSS 3.1 (NVD)
- EPSS 8.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of CVEs (30 Oct 2026)
- Last changed at its sources
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Summary
Google Chromium Visuals contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could affect multiple web browsers that utilize Chromium, including, but not limited to, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera.
Description
Use after free in Visuals in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.201 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Affected and fixed versions
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Google Chrome | from 124.0.6367.201, before 124.0.6367.201 | 124.0.6367.201 |
| google chrome | before 124.0.6367.201 | 124.0.6367.201 |
| fedoraproject fedora | 38 | — |
| fedoraproject fedora | 39 | — |
| fedoraproject fedora | 40 | — |
Exploitation
| In CISA KEV since | 13 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Due date for US federal agencies | 3 Jun 2024 |
| Used in ransomware campaigns | Unknown |
| Required action | Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. |
Severity
| CVSS 3.1 | 9.6 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HScored by NVD |
|---|---|
| Weakness | CWE-416 |
References
- CVE-2024-4671 on NVD
- CVE-2024-4671 in the CISA KEV catalog
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html?m=1 (cited by CISA)
- CVE-2024-4671 on OSV
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.chromium.org/issues/339266700 Permissions Required
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6G7EYH2JAK5OJPVNC6AXYQ5K7YGYNCDN/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BWFSZNNWSQYDRYKNLBDGEXXKMBXDYQ3F/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FAWEKDQTHPN7NFEMLIWP7YMIZ2DHF36N/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NTSN22LNYXMWHVTYNOYQVOY7VDZFHENQ/ Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WSUWM73ZCXTN62AT2REYQDD5ZKPFMDZD/ Mailing List
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-4671 US Government Resource
Sources
Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.
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