CVE-2023-4762
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8 · CWE-843 · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
8.8CVSS HIGH ● exploited
🔴 Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2024-02-06. US federal agencies must patch by 2024-02-27.
Summary
Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.179 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)56%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4762 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4762Patch
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlAdvisory
- https://crbug.com/1473247
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/27NR3KG553CG6LGPMP6SHWEVHTYPL6RC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T655QF7CQ3DYAMPFV7IECQYGDEUIVVT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KUQ7CTX3W372X3UY56VVNAHCH6H2F4X3/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-11Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-07Advisory