CVE-2024-6998

2024-08-0600:00:00

ubuntu.com

google chrome

use after free

vulnerability

heap corruption

html page

remote attacker

user education

ui gestures

chromium

ubuntu 19.10

debian

snap

CVSS3

8.8

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

AI Score

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

26.9%

JSON

Use after free in User Education in Google Chrome prior to 127.0.6533.72
allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI
gestures to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
(Chromium security severity: Medium)

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