Sandbox Escape Vulnerability in Visuals in Google Chrome

CVE-2024-4671
9.6CRITICAL

Key Information

Vendor
Google
Status
Chrome
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 May 2024

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😄 Trended👾 Exploit Exists📰 News Worthy

Summary

The vulnerability is a high-severity "use-after-free" bug in the Visuals component of Google Chrome, known as CVE-2024-4671. Although there is confirmation that an exploit exists, there have been no instances of active exploitation at this time. The flaw poses a risk to users of all operating systems, including Mac, Windows, and Linux. The exploitation of the vulnerability can result in the reading of data from the user's computer, crashes, and potential takeover of the system. It is recommended that users update their Chrome browsers immediately to the latest version to protect against this vulnerability.

CISA Reported

CISA provides regional cyber and physical services to support security and resilience across the United States. CISA monitor the most dangerious vulnerabilities and have identifed CVE-2024-4671 as being exploited but is not known by the CISA to be used in ransomware campaigns. This is subject to change at pace

The CISA's recommendation is: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Affected Version(s)

Chrome < 124.0.6367.201

News Articles

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.6
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • 👾

    Exploit exists.

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Vulnerability started trending.

  • First article discovered by SecurityWeek

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

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