Remote Out of Bounds Memory Write Vulnerability in Chrome Prior to 126.0.6478.54

Summary

The CVE-2024-5830 vulnerability is a critical security flaw in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code within the Chrome renderer sandbox by getting a victim to visit a malicious website. The flaw is a type confusion bug within the V8 engine’s handling of object maps and transitions, leading to out-of-bounds memory write. Exploiting this vulnerability provides the attacker with the capability to manipulate objects and data structures within the JavaScript engine. Although this vulnerability has been patched by Google, the severity of the flaw and the techniques used to escape Chrome’s heap isolation mechanisms highlight the ongoing security challenges in web browsers. There are no known actual exploits of this vulnerability by ransomware groups at this time.

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CVE-2024-5830

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