CVE-2024-5838

2024-06-1100:00:00

ubuntu.com

type confusion

google chrome

remote attacker

out of bounds memory access

crafted html

cve-2024-5838

ubuntu

chromium snap

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

22.0%

JSON

Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed a
remote attacker to perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML
page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Notes

Author	Note
alexmurray	The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap